Animal Sacrifice, Religion and Law in South Asia (Paperback, 1)

List of figures and tables

Introduction: The judicialisation and politicisation of sacrifice

1 Animal sacrifice, politics and the law in Tamil Nadu, South India

2 Animal sacrifice on trial: Moral reforms and religious freedom in India 

3 Hidden meanings of buffalo sacrifice: Dalit defiance and the working of law and the state in South India

4 On blood, power, and public interest: The concealment of Hindu sacrificial rites under Indian law

5 ‘Who belled the cat?’: The magistrate, the king, the pandit and the abolition of animal sacrifice in a Bengali town 

6 The last straw on the camel’s back: Analysing judicial decisions and legal approaches on protection of camels in India

7 ‘Not in the name of dharma’: A judgment of the Supreme Court of Nepal on mass sacrifices at the Ga?h? M?? Mel?

Afterword

Index