2021
DOI: 10.1177/25148486211062005
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‘A pilgrimage of camels’: Dairy capitalism, nomadic pastoralism, and subnational Hindutva statism in Rajasthan

Abstract: Hindu nationalists and NGOs proffer camel dairying as an employment strategy for Rajasthan's nomadic pastoralists, akin to the commodification of bovine milk for poverty alleviation in India. Commercial dairying however is inconsistent with pastoralist ethics though it is consistent with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's broader agenda to consolidate Hindutva at the national and subnational levels in India, and with developmentalism that regards animals as capital. In an original contribution bringing togeth… Show more

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“…Yamini Narayanan (2021b) advances scholarship on conjugated oppressions by examining how species (in addition to class, caste, gender and tribe) is a key axis along which agrarian capitalism and right-wing nationalism are materialised. Her research in Rajasthan with camels and their pastoralist herders, the Raika, focuses on recent moves by the (Hindutva) state government to commercialise camel dairy farming.…”
Section: Species Identity and Identification As Speciesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Yamini Narayanan (2021b) advances scholarship on conjugated oppressions by examining how species (in addition to class, caste, gender and tribe) is a key axis along which agrarian capitalism and right-wing nationalism are materialised. Her research in Rajasthan with camels and their pastoralist herders, the Raika, focuses on recent moves by the (Hindutva) state government to commercialise camel dairy farming.…”
Section: Species Identity and Identification As Speciesmentioning
confidence: 99%