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Acknowledgements
I thank Anne Murphy, Andy Rotman, Will Elison, Sunila Kale, Mandrakanta Bose, Vidyut Aklujkar, Ashok Aklujkar, Anand Yang, Hannah Haegland, Laura Randall, Naisargi Dave, William Mazzarella, Svati Shah, Andrea Pinkney, Adheesh Sathaye, Sumit Guha, Keith Snodgrass and Priti Ramamurthy.
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Notes
1. Yogendra Yadav and Sanjay Kumar, ‘The Food Habits of a Nation’, The Hindu (14 Aug. 2006). [http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/the-food-habits-of-a-nation/article3089973.ece, accessed 1 March 2017].
2. Anthropological Survey of India [http://www.ansi.gov.in/people_india.htm, accessed 23 Jan. 2017].
3. Jordon Weissmann, ‘Holy Cow! India is the World's Top Beef Exporter’, The Atlantic (29 May 2012) [http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/05/holy-cow-india-is-the-worlds-top-beef-exporter/257793/, accessed 23 Jan. 2017].
4. Examples include Osmania University in Telangana in April and May 2012, where a beef festival was held by Dalit students; another was proposed (though blocked by the High Court) at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi in 2012, and at the University of Hyderabad in Telangana in March 2015.
5. Gandhi was assassinated in 1949 by Nathuram Godse, an erstwhile member of a Hindu Right organisation, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. In his defence, Godse claimed to be protecting ‘Hindus’ from Gandhi as a ‘violent pacifist who brought untold calamities’ upon India.
6. Yadav and Kumar, ‘The Food Habits of a Nation’.