New Dalit Assertion and the Rejection of Buffalo Sacrifice in South India

Taking a cue from the recent prevention of a buffalo sacrifice to a powerful local goddess in Karnataka and the writings of Dalit activist-turned-spiritual-guru M. C. Raj, this article traces a history of how buffalo sacrifice has been witnessed, described and analyzed from the mid nineteenth to the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aya Ikegame
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud 2022-05-01
Series:South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/7944