![]() ![]() This affirmation of beef over sweets became significant when the upper castes used beef to push the dalit beyond the place of ‘civilized society’. ![]() Sung by dalit women, this song claims the superiority of dalit food over ladoos, which are generally associated with upper-caste food practices in majority of India. Patibharladdukaykamache, watibharpahije Matanīajarchyadivashimatannaseltaskasa divas legato bhanbhan This is why you may not have heard of this folk song: If the consequences can be fatal when the food is deemed sacred, violence is also associated with perceptions of foods as polluting. Īggression over the food choices of others is related to the way food habits define identities. One man’s food may truly be another man's poison. Jha, in early times brahmins ate beef, and beef-eating finds mention even in the Mahabharata. Yet according to scholars like Gopal Guru and D.N. ![]() The subsequent government inaction, and statements that such clashes take place when people's sentiments are hurt’ firmly place beef eating as wrong and anti-Hindu. Eating and food choices are political acts, and nothing proves this more than the recent instance of hate crime where Mohammad Akhlaq, a resident of Bisara village of Dadri in western Uttar Pradesh was lynched and his son Danish brutally assaulted by a mob of villagers over a rumour that they had slaughtered a calf and consumed its meat. ![]()
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