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100			_aNarayanan, Yamini, _91643755 _eauthor
245			_aMother cow, mother India : _ba multispecies politics of dairy in India / _cYamini Narayanan.
260			_aNew Delhi : _bStandford University Press, _c2023.
520			_a"What is the role of milk in cow slaughter? How is the cow commodified for dairy production and also deified as a mother and goddess? India is home to the largest dairy herd in the world. It is a global leader in milk production. India also deploys a rampant cow-protection discourse against beef consumption and cow slaughter. Shifting the focus away from this contradictory zeal to the reality of the maltreatment of bovines, Mother Cow, Mother India shows us how their brutalization is integral to the functioning of the dairy industry. The calf is dumped aside, never allowed to suckle, while the mother fuels the wheels of profit. Industrialized violence against the “holy” cow is now a norm that sustains society, and like all norms it remains invisible. Yamini Narayanan’s multispecies ethnography frames animals as key political subjects than as mere objects of analysis. This book illuminates new ways in which anthropocentrism, casteism, communalism, and fascism operate together, in India and elsewhere."--
650			_aMilk trade -- Political aspects -- India _91644354
650			_aDairying -- Political aspects -- India _91644355
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