India is the land of paradoxes. As the British economist Joan Robinson famously quipped, ‘Whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true.’ This statement aptly captures the politics around the cow in India.
Politics Around the Cow:Constructed and Cultural
Deepika M
SACRED COWS AND CHICKEN MANCHURIAN: THE EVERYDAY POLITICS OF EATING MEAT IN INDIA by By James Staples. Series Culture, Place, and Nature edited by K. Sivaramakrishnan University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2020, 229 pp., INR 399.00, $32.00
April 2024, volume 48, No 4