"A second example of a feature that is widespread but not universal in Hinduism is revulsion at the killing of cows. This is a recurrent theme in friction between Hindus and Muslims. What may be the earliest reference to Muslims in an Indian text correctly ascribes to them the view that there is no sin in eating animals such as cattle. A late twelfth- century poet in the north gives a fanciful explanation of the ugly physical features of a Muslim ambassador in terms of âthe vast number of cows he had slain.â A southern poetess describing Muslim maraudings in the second half of the fourteenth century speaks of a river âflowing red with the blood of slaughtered cows.â A MarÄáčhÄ« ballad that may date from the seventeenth century tells of a Muslim general who desecrated a Hindu idol and built a mosque in its place: âAfter the mosque was built,â the ballad continues, âa cow was slaughtered.â Another early ballad describes a particularly obnoxious Muslimâ a RÄjpĆ«t convert and a voracious cow- eaterâ who went so far as to order the sacrifice of a pregnant cow. Muslim sources complement this picture. For example, Shaykh Aáž„mad SirhindÄ« (d. 1624) saw the sacrifice of the cow as âone of the most important ritesâ of Islam in India, precisely because of its offensiveness to Hindusâ though wise or weak Muslim rulers would from time to time forbid the practice for just that reason..."
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Cook, Michael - Ancient religions, modern politics _ the Islamic case in comparative perspective-Princeton University Press (2014)
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