Authoritarian Populism and Bovine Political Economy in Modi-s India analyses how the twin forces of Hindu nationalism and neoliberalism unfold in India-s bovine economy, revealing their often-devastating material and economic impact on the country-s poor.
This book is a rare, in-depth study of India-s bovine economy under Narendra Modi-s authoritarian populism. This is an economy that throws up a central paradox: On the one hand, an entrenched and aggressive Hindu nationalist politics is engaged in violently protecting the cow, disciplining those who do not sufficiently respect and revere it; on the other hand, India houses and continuously promotes one of the world-s largest corporate-controlled beef export economies that depends on the slaughter of millions of bovines every year. The book offers an original analysis of this scenario to show how Modi-s authoritarian populist regime has worked to reconcile the two by simultaneously promoting a virulent Hindu nationali
