As India heads toward a general election, taking up arms for ‘mother cow’ is part of a broader campaign to impose ancient Hindu religious values across a multicultural country
Hindu holy woman Sadhvi Kamal, 40, talks on the phone with members of her vigilante network in front Indian muslim cattle traders on the outskirts of Jaipur, Rajasthan, on Jan. 25, 2019.As she patrols for cow smugglers, Sadhvi Kamal, a Hindu holy woman in a saffron robe, rides in a white SUV with a sticker on the rear window displaying a cow framed by swords and rifles. The words in the sticker’s logo say, “The cow is the mother of the world.
As India heads toward a general election that begins this week, taking up arms for “mother cow” is part of a broader campaign to impose ancient Hindu religious values across a multicultural country. As with similar movements across the world, Hindu nationalism, once fringe, has now taken a central place in India’s politics.The movement is led by the party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who grew up chanting slogans and practicing manoeuvrs at nationalist training camps.
Elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh, the government spent unprecedented sums on the Hindu Kumbh Mela festival that ended last month, with Modi and the chief minister, Yogi Adityanath, himself a Hindu monk, appearing in countless posters. Three months earlier, Adityanath’s state government replaced the Muslim name of the host city, Allahabad, with Prayagraj, a Sanskrit word from Hindu religious texts. The name change from Muslim to Hindu is one of many in recent months.
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