13 Oct, 2015
Holy cow: India’s bovine protectors are milking an old script – DAWN.COM
The recent mobilisations around the cow in India have little to do with religion and everything to do with politics. The expanded ban on beef in Maharashtra, the vigilante violence in Punjab against those transporting cows, and the shameful lynching of a man suspected of possessing beef in Dadri, are chillingly resonant of the cow protection movement of the late nineteenth century. What we are seeing is not new: but what is of note is the political cache it now commands.
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