ON BLOOD, POWER, AND PUBLIC INTEREST: THE CONCEALMENT OF HINDU SACRIFICIAL RITES UNDER INDIAN LAW
Critiques of animal sacrifice in India have become increasingly strident over the past fifteen years. In the state of West Bengal, many of these critiques center on Kālīghāṭ, a landmark Hindu pilgrimage site in Kolkata where goats are sacrificed daily to the goddess Kālī. However, while similar crit...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2019]
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 165-182 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
West Bengal
/ Jurisdiction
/ Kalkutta-Kalighat
/ Kali Goddess
/ Animal sacrifice
/ Ritual
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism KBM Asia XA Law |
| Further subjects: | B
Kali
B Tourism B Calcutta B Judicial activism B Public Space B Animal sacrifice B Hinduism B Kolkata B Secularism B India |
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