Mother Cow, Mother India A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India

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...

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Main Author:	Narayanan, Yamini
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Language:	English
Published:	Redwood City Stanford University Press 2023
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Series:	South Asia in Motion
Subjects:	Animal welfare-India Cow protection Cow slaughter Cow trafficking Cows Cows-Religious aspects-Hinduism Dairy farming Dairying Gaushala Hinduism and politics Hindutva India Informal economy Mother Cow POLITICAL SCIENCE / General SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban Veganism Hindutva Cow trafficking Informal economy Cow slaughter Cow protection Veganism Dairying Gaushala Mother Cow India
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Abstract	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.
AbstractList	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. 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. No detailed description available for "Mother Cow, Mother India".
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SubjectTerms	Animal welfare-India Cow protection Cow slaughter Cow trafficking Cows Cows-Religious aspects-Hinduism Dairy farming Dairying Gaushala Hinduism and politics Hindutva India Informal economy Mother Cow POLITICAL SCIENCE / General SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban Veganism
Subtitle	A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India
TableOfContents	Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 4 Gaushalas: Making India “Pure” Again -- Tables and Figures -- Chapter 3 Milking -- Chapter 8 Envisioning Post-Dairy Futures -- Chapter 7 Slaughter -- Index Chapter 2 Breeding Bovine Caste -- Chapter 5 “Save Cow, Save India” -- Chapter 1 Dairy Politics and India’s Milk Nationalisms -- Frontmatter -- Chapter 6 Trafficking -- Notes -- Introduction -- Bibliography --
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