This book explores both the social history of livestock and veterinary history in South Asia, and integrates both of them seamlessly within its narrative.

Saurabh Mishra is Lecturer in History at the University of Sheffield

Introduction
Part I
Veterinary Health and the Colonial State
1. Horse Breeding and the Ideologies of the Early Colonial State
2. Beasts, Murrains and Veterinary Health
3. Ticks, Germs and Bacteriological Research
Part II
Caste, Class and Cattle
4. Cattle, Famines and the Colonial State
5. Food Adulteration, Public Health and Middle Class Anxieties
6. Cattle-Poisoning and the Chamar Identity
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index