Paradoxically, entrenched Hindu nationalist and populist aggression, which incurs violent disciplinary action against eating or harming cows, occurs alongside one of the world’s largest export-oriented and corporately owned beef meat industries. This online workshop charted the historical and political forces driving these twinned processes of neoliberalism and cultural hegemony and consider opportunities for progressive counter-mobilisation.

Watch the presentations from Jostein Jakobsen and Kenneth Bo Nielsen (University of Oslo) on their latest book (Authoritarian Populism and Bovine Political Economy in Modi’s India) and Sagari Ramdas (Food Sovereignty Alliance, India). Facilitated by Mehroosh Tak (RVC).