“Helpless Indian”: The Sacred Cow as the Symbol of Hindu-Muslim Unity in a Late Nineteenth-Century Hindi Novel

In the colonial North India of the late 19th century, the cow emerged as a powerful symbol of imagining the nation. The present paper explores how the image of the sacred cow was reinterpreted in the new sociopolitical context and subsequently employed in the Hindi novel, the development of which c...

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Auteur principal: Justyna Wiśniewska-Singh
Format: article
Langue:EN
Publié: Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2021
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/478d7f7f88304c07bb0d915b424fc71d
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