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Author | : Yamini Narayanan |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2023-02-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1503634388 |
India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the cow as sacred. And yet India is among the world's leading producers of beef, leather, and milk, industries sustained by the mass slaughter of bovines. What is behind this seeming contradiction? What do bovines, deemed holy in Hinduism, experience in the Indian milk and beef industries? Yamini Narayanan asks and answers these questions, introducing cows and buffaloes as key subjects in India's cow protectionism, rather than their treatment hitherto as mere objects of political analysis. Emphasizing human–animal hierarchical relations, Narayanan argues that the Hindu framing of the cow as "mother" is one of human domination, wherein bovine motherhood is simultaneously capitalized for dairy production and weaponized by right-wing Hindu nationalists to violently oppress Muslims and Dalits. Using ethnographic and empirical data gathered across India, this book reveals the harms caused to buffaloes, cows, bulls, and calves in dairying, and the exploitation required of the diverse, racialized labor throughout India's dairy production continuum to obscure such violence. Ultimately, Narayanan traces how the unraveling of human domination and exploitation of farmed animals is integral to progressive multispecies democratic politics, speculating on the real possibility of a post-dairy society, based on vegan agricultural policies for livelihoods and food security.
Author | : R. B. L. Nigam |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Cattle |
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Author | : Vidya Pradhan |
Publisher | : Children's Book Trust |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Children's stories, Indic (English) |
ISBN | : 9788170119739 |
Author | : D. N. Jha |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 178960933X |
Hugely controversial upon its publication in India, this book has already been banned by the Hyderabad Civil Court and the author's life has been threatened. Jha argues against the historical sanctity of the cow in India, in an illuminating response to the prevailing attitudes about beef that have been fiercely supported by the current Hindu right-wing government and the fundamentalist groups backing it.
Author | : Katherine Mayo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Kenneth R. Valpey |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2019-11-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3030284085 |
This open access book provides both a broad perspective and a focused examination of cow care as a subject of widespread ethical concern in India, and increasingly in other parts of the world. In the face of what has persisted as a highly charged political issue over cow protection in India, intellectual space must be made to bring the wealth of Indian traditional ethical discourse to bear on the realities of current human-animal relationships, particularly those of humans with cows. Dharma, yoga, and bhakti paradigms serve as starting points for bringing Hindu—particularly Vaishnava Hindu—animal ethics into conversation with contemporary Western animal ethics. The author argues that a culture of bhakti—the inclusive, empathetic practice of spirituality centered in Krishna as the beloved cowherd of Vraja—can complement recently developed ethics-of-care thinking to create a solid basis for sustaining all kinds of cow care communities.
Author | : Lori Gruen |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2018-11-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501342169 |
Do depictions of crazy cat ladies obscure more sinister structural violence against animals hoarded in factory farms? Highlighting the frequent pathologization of animal lovers and animal rights activists, this book examines how the “madness” of our relationships with animals intersects with the “madness” of taking animals seriously. The essays collected in this volume argue that “animaladies” are expressive of political and psychological discontent, and the characterization of animal advocacy as mad or “crazy” distracts attention from broader social unease regarding human exploitation of animal life. While allusions to madness are both subtle and overt, they are also very often gendered, thought to be overly sentimental with an added sense that emotions are being directed at the wrong species. Animaladies are obstacles for the political uptake of interest in animal issues-as the intersections between this volume and established feminist scholarship show, the fear of being labeled unreasonable or mad still has political currency.
Author | : Marvin Harris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1989 |
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Author | : Dr. K.C. Mahendru |
Publisher | : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd |
Total Pages | : 597 |
Release | : 2017-12-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9352787234 |
This book studies the national and humanitarian mission of Yogrishi Baba Ramdev, who having brought about the yoga-revolution and by installing yoga at the world level, began the yoga era. Here he presents his plans for poverty-free, corruption-free and a developed India.
Author | : Hindol Sengupta |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2017-10-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1442267461 |
Winner of the 2018 Wilbur Award There are more than one billion Hindus in the world, but for those who don’t practice the faith, very little seems to be understood about it. Followers have not only built and sustained the world’s largest democracy but have also sustained one of the greatest philosophical streams in the world for more than three thousand years. So, what makes a Hindu? Why is so little heard from the real practitioners of the everyday faith? Why does information never go beyond clichés? Being Hindu is a practitioner’s guide that takes the reader on a journey to very simply understand what the Hindu message is, where it stands in the clash of civilizations between Islam and Christianity, and why the Hindu way could yet be the path for plurality and progress in the twenty-first century.