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Ep. 139: The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Politics of Cows

Gita Press kept talking about it throughout. Was it something, like did they genuinely expect cow slaughter to at some point in time we banned across the country? Or was it more of a rhetorical tool to mobilize Hindus? But because then they could also see that even post immediately after independence, you see what was happening in UP. So they could see even the ambivalence of the Congress government, so the Congress leaders and cows.

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