Beef Festival at Osmania University

Beef Festival at Osmania: "Beef, or more generally, the meat of cattle has been a contentious issue for more than a century, leading at times to riots, killings, social divisions and political movements. Much of this has been initiated by groups foregrounding their “Hindu” identity who have used the protection of the cow to mark out lines of difference from the “Other”, primarily Muslims. Indian politics and academia are by now, thanks to this bloody history, well conditioned to view public posturing over beef eating as the preserve of Hindutva politics which furthers a reactionary agenda."

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