Delhi’s Meatscapes
Muslim Butchers in a Transforming Mega-City
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9780199477807
Publication date:
25/06/2018
Hardback
256 pages
Price: 750.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199477807
Publication date:
25/06/2018
Hardback
256 pages
Zarin Ahmad
Delhi's Meatscapes brings together rare archival documents, vernacular sources, and ethnographic insights gleaned from several years of immersion in the city's meatscapes and is the first of its kind for urban anthropologists, economists, political scientists, policy planners and readers who wish to take a hard look at their own (non-) meat choices.
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Zarin Ahmad
Description
Tracing the journey of meat from the farm to the meat shop and other workspaces of the butcher within the multi-sited margins in Delhi, the current volume intimately follows the lives of Qureshi butchers and other meat sector workers in this transforming mega-city. The author addresses the tensions that meat throws up in a bristling society whose stakes are now more than ever intense. She shows how meat is also a rising sector in the Indian economy, and fetches precious foreign exchange. Qureshi butchers stand at the crossroads of class, caste, stigma, religion, market, urban ecological policies, and a never-ceasing political debate around these issues.
Delhi's Meatscapes brings together rare archival documents, vernacular sources, and ethnographic insights gleaned from several years of immersion in the city's meatscapes and is the first of its kind for urban anthropologists, economists, political scientists, policy planners and readers who wish to take a hard look at their own (non-) meat choices.
About the Author
Zarin Ahmad
Zarin Ahmad
Table of contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Meatscapes and Muslim Butchers
1. Taarikh e Quresh : History of the Biradri
2. Bonds of Cohesion: Community Life in Delhi
3. From the Farm to the Abattoir: Actors, Networks, Spaces
4. Roadside Vendors and Glitzy Malls: Delhi’s Diverse Meatscapes
5. Messy Meat, Messier Politics: Relocating the Abattoir
6. Negotiating Occupation, Stigma, and Sensitivity: Qureshis as Agents of Change
Glossary
References
Index
About the Author
Zarin Ahmad
Features
- Detailed ethnographic study of Qureshi Muslims in India
- Deals with the commodification and politicization of meat in the context of urban areas
- Explores the sociopolitical, economic, and cultural spaces that meat occupies in the lives of a marginalized community such as the Qureshis.
Zarin Ahmad
Review
‘Zarin Ahmad’s book is not only an in-depth ethnography of the Qureshis (Muslim community of butchers) of Delhi showing all the facets of their life, at the family level, in the urban space and in the local economy: it is also a study of the marginalization of Muslims in an Indian megalopolis, and even more interestingly of the place of meat in a Hindu-dominated city. The ‘beef ban’ introduced by some BJP governments after 2014 makes it even more topical.’
-Christophe Jaffrelot, senior research fellow, CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS, Paris, France
‘This is a model work of scholarship: richly researched, closely argued, and lucidly written. It effortlessly crosses geographical and disciplinary boundaries to narrate the interlinked histories of a community, the Qureshis; a commodity, meat; a city, Delhi; and a country, India. The book should attract a wide readership within and outside the academy.’
-Ramachandra Guha, historian, Bengaluru, India
Description
Tracing the journey of meat from the farm to the meat shop and other workspaces of the butcher within the multi-sited margins in Delhi, the current volume intimately follows the lives of Qureshi butchers and other meat sector workers in this transforming mega-city. The author addresses the tensions that meat throws up in a bristling society whose stakes are now more than ever intense. She shows how meat is also a rising sector in the Indian economy, and fetches precious foreign exchange. Qureshi butchers stand at the crossroads of class, caste, stigma, religion, market, urban ecological policies, and a never-ceasing political debate around these issues.
Delhi's Meatscapes brings together rare archival documents, vernacular sources, and ethnographic insights gleaned from several years of immersion in the city's meatscapes and is the first of its kind for urban anthropologists, economists, political scientists, policy planners and readers who wish to take a hard look at their own (non-) meat choices.
About the Author
Zarin Ahmad
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‘Zarin Ahmad’s book is not only an in-depth ethnography of the Qureshis (Muslim community of butchers) of Delhi showing all the facets of their life, at the family level, in the urban space and in the local economy: it is also a study of the marginalization of Muslims in an Indian megalopolis, and even more interestingly of the place of meat in a Hindu-dominated city. The ‘beef ban’ introduced by some BJP governments after 2014 makes it even more topical.’
-Christophe Jaffrelot, senior research fellow, CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS, Paris, France
‘This is a model work of scholarship: richly researched, closely argued, and lucidly written. It effortlessly crosses geographical and disciplinary boundaries to narrate the interlinked histories of a community, the Qureshis; a commodity, meat; a city, Delhi; and a country, India. The book should attract a wide readership within and outside the academy.’
-Ramachandra Guha, historian, Bengaluru, India
Table of contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Meatscapes and Muslim Butchers
1. Taarikh e Quresh : History of the Biradri
2. Bonds of Cohesion: Community Life in Delhi
3. From the Farm to the Abattoir: Actors, Networks, Spaces
4. Roadside Vendors and Glitzy Malls: Delhi’s Diverse Meatscapes
5. Messy Meat, Messier Politics: Relocating the Abattoir
6. Negotiating Occupation, Stigma, and Sensitivity: Qureshis as Agents of Change
Glossary
References
Index
About the Author
