Julia Hauser explores the global history of vegetarianism from the mid-nineteenth century to the early Cold War. She demonstrates that vegetarians in India and the West shared notions of purity, which drew some toward not only internationalism and anticolonialism but also racism, nationalism, and violence.

Introduction
1. In Search of Purity: European Vegetarians and Their Spheres of Projection
2. Evolution, Cows, and Communalism: Vegetarianism and the Colonial Encounter in India, ca. 1880-1912
3. The Chicago Effect: Internationalizing Vegetarianism
4. Between Buddha, Gandhi, Sufism, and Militant Masculinity: Relating to South Asia in Interwar German and Swiss Vegetarianism
5. Race, Nation, and Peace: (Re-)Internationalizing Vegetarianism After the Second World War
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index