| 书目名称 | Critical Insights on Colonial Modes of Seeing Cattle in India (1850–1980) |
| 副标题 | Tracing the Pre-hist |
| 编辑 | Himanshu Upadhyaya |
| 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/243/242487/242487.mp4 |
| 概述 | Provides fresh insights into the history of cattle and their cultural significance in South Asia.Shows how the ‘sacred cow‘ has impacted political discourse in South Asia from colonial times to the po |
| 丛书名称 | Asia in Transition |
| 图书封面 |  |
| 描述 | .This book traces the contours of the symbiotic relationship between crop cultivation and cattle rearing in India by reading against the grain of several official accounts from the late colonial period to the 1980s. It also skillfully unpacks the multiple cultural expressions that revolve around cattle in India and the wider subcontinent to show how this domestic animal has greatly impacted political discourses in South Asia from colonial times, into the postcolonial period. The author begins by demonstrating the dependence between the nomadic cattle breeder and the settled cultivator, at the nexus of land-livestock-agriculture, as indicated in the writings of Sir Albert Howard, who espoused some of the most sophisticated ideas on integration, holism, and mixed farming in an era when agricultural research was marked by increasing specialisation and compartmentalisation. The book springboards with the views of colonial experts who worked at imperial science institutions but passionately voiced dissenting opinions due to their emotional investment in the lives of Indian peasants, of whom Howard was a leading light. The book presents Howard and his contemporaries’ writings to then eng |
| 出版日期 | Book 2024 |
| 关键词 | Agro-Pastoralism in South Asia; Cultural History of Cattle in South Asia; Social and Economic History |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1560-2 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-981-97-1562-6 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-981-97-1560-2Series ISSN 2364-8252 Series E-ISSN 2364-8260 |
| issn_series | 2364-8252 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapor |
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