League for the Promotion of Temperance and Morality

An organization started in 1907 in Surat by D. J. Edal Behram to promote temperance from alcohol, and the prevention of slaughter of animals for food. They encouraged large groups of people to make resolutions to abstain from the use of intoxicants and to give up animal food. In its first year, the organization reported that twenty thousand people have made such resolutions. It was affiliated with the Theosophical Order of Service. It published Satsang, a forthnightly journal.

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