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Hinduism and its complicated history with cows (and people who eat them)

  • Written by Wendy Doniger, Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago
imageAre cows sacred to all Hindus?PRODaniel Incandela, CC BY-NC

Just this past June, at a national meeting of various Hindu organizations in India, a popular preacher, Sadhvi Saraswati, suggested that those who consumed beef should be publicly hanged. Later, at the same conclave, an animal rights activist, Chetan Sharma, said,

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