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The cow protection movement is most connected with India, but has been active since colonial times in predominantly Buddhist countries such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Sri Lanka is the first country in South Asia to wholly legislate on harm inflicted against cattle.
The first Gaurakshini sabha (cow protection council) was established in the Punjab Province in 1882. [20] The movement often manifested as brazen Anti-Muslim riots [21] [22] claiming thousands of lives across the country, especially on the occasions of Islamic festivals of sacrifices.
Cow-protection groups see themselves as preventing cattle theft and smuggling, [9] protecting the cow or upholding the law in an Indian state which bans cow slaughter. According to a Reuters report, a total of 63 cow vigilante attacks had occurred in India between 2010 and mid 2017, most after Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014.
Vishnu Dabad attributes his rise from poverty to powerful local politician to an animal: the cow. The 30-year-old is one of many Gau Rakshaks, or cow protectors: activists who have taken Indian ...
In India where the cow is a sacred creature, a group of vigilante rescuers work through the night to ensure the safety of local cattle. The group watches for smugglers whom intend to take the ...
In 1871, states Peter van der Veer, Sikhs killed Muslim butchers of cows in Amritsar and Ludhiana, and viewed cow protection as a "sign of the moral quality of the state". [9] According to Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf, Sikhs were agitating for the well-being of cows in the 1860s, and their ideas spread to Hindu reform movements.
In the 1870s, cow protection movements spread rapidly in Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Oudh State (now Awadh) and Rohilkhand. The Arya Samaj had a tremendous role in skillfully converting this sentiment into a national movement. [111] The first Gaurakshini sabha (cow protection society) was established in the Punjab in 1882. [113]
Police in India arrested a so-called “cow vigilante” accused of inciting deadly religious violence in the north Indian state of Haryana in July.. Mohit Yadav, better known by his alias Monu ...