James Staples, “Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian: The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India” (U Washington Press, 2020)

Bovine politics exposes fault lines within contemporary Indian society, where eating beef is simultaneously a violation of sacred taboos, an expression of marginalized identities, and a route…

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