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ca-4838	Govindrajan, Radhika	Labors of Love: On the Political Economies and Ethics of Bovine Politics in Himalayan India	2021		.htm	text/html	12035	621	61	Kanha was one of the most charismatic faces of a contemporary gau-raksha (cow-protection) movement, rooted in Hindu supremacist ideology, that has, over the past decade, authorized and enacted unremitting, sometimes fatal violence against Dalits (formerly known as “Untouchables”), Muslims, and other religious minorities identified as threats to the cow and a supposedly beleaguered Hindu nation that can only be united and secure under the maternal leadership of Gau-Mata (Gundimeda 2009; Contractor 2018; Govindrajan 2018; Imran 2018; Adcock and Govindrajan 2019). As historians have noted, this project of cow-protection, with its emphasis on the sacred inviolability of the cow’s life, stood at odds with everyday rural economies in which cattle rearing, trade, slaughter, and consumption were inextricably intertwined (Chowdhury 1996;	cache/ca-4838.htm	txt/ca-4838.txt