1st Edition
Animal Sacrifice, Religion and Law in South Asia
Introduction: The judicialisation and politicisation of sacrifice
Daniela Berti & Anthony Good
1. Animal sacrifice, politics and the law in Tamil Nadu, South India
Anthony Good
2. Animal sacrifice on trial: Moral reforms and religious freedom in India
Daniela Berti
3. Hidden meanings of buffalo sacrifice: Dalit defiance and the working of law and the state in South India
Aya Ikegame
4. On blood, power, and public interest: The concealment of Hindu sacrificial rites under Indian law
Deonnie G. Moodie
5. ‘Who belled the cat?’ The magistrate, the king, the pandit and the abolition of animal sacrifice in a Bengali town
Raphaël Voix
6. The last straw on the camel’s back: Analysing judicial decisions and legal approaches on protection of camels in India
Ritwick Dutta
7. ‘Not in the name of dharma’: A judgment of the Supreme Court of Nepal on mass sacrifices at the Gaḍhī Māī Melā
Chiara Letizia & Blandine Ripert
Afterword
C.J. Fuller
Index
Biography
Daniela Berti is a social anthropologist and research fellow at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France, and a member of the Centre for South Asian and Himalayan Studies (CESAH), Paris, France.
Anthony Good is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and an associate member of CESAH.
