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American Modernisers and the Cow Question in Colonial and Nationalist India
South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies ( IF 0.841 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-22 , DOI: 10.1080/00856401.2021.1865656
Prakash Kumar 1
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Abstract

The cattle modernisation sought by American missionaries in colonial North India advanced a productivist argument around the efficiency of cattle and their contribution to agriculture. On the face of it, by criticising the excessive supply of cattle in North India, this position went against the core preservationist concerns of the cow protectionists. But in reality, these modernisers struck a range of correlations with colonial and nationalist positions on the management of livestock and, ironically, even some limited space with the cow protectionists in treating India’s cattle as productive beings that were beneficial to the nation. These American prescriptions were stable constructs that became visible once again in the American food aid apparatus in India after Independence and shared overlapping concerns with ongoing cattle productivity debates in India. This paper illuminates the overlaps between the advocacy of the multiple constituents and a recurrence of certain patterns of contestation that were constitutive of the very paradigm of agrarian modernisation.



中文翻译:

美国现代化者与殖民主义和民族主义印度的牛问题

摘要

美国传教士在北印度殖民地寻求的养牛现代化提出了关于养牛效率及其对农业的贡献的生产主义论点。从表面上看,通过批评北印度牛的供应过剩,这一立场违背了奶牛保护主义者对核心保鲜主义者的关注。但实际上,这些现代化措施与殖民地和民族主义在畜牧管理上的立场形成了一系列关联,具有讽刺意味的是,与奶牛保护主义者相比,在将印度的牛作为对国​​家有益的生产性动物方面,甚至还有一些有限的空间。这些美国处方是稳定的结构,在独立后在印度的美国粮食援助机构中再次可见,并且与印度正在进行的养牛场辩论存在共同的担忧。本文阐明了多种成分的拥护与某些竞争模式的再次发生之间的重叠,这些竞争模式构成了农业现代化的范式。

更新日期:2021-03-23
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