Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India by Yamini Narayanan

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

Yamini Narayanan

424 pages first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction sociology
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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, indus...

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