Multispecies Modernity

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Topicality: cities as animal/human habitats (we saw this in the early days of Covid, animals returning to urban spaces, but in reality there are many animals who live an urban life) Investigates colonial legacies in postcolonial conservation and their contribution to environmental crisis Discusses India's cities as emergent global centres Deals with animals in captivity, class, poverty, and urban space Author is critical of vegetarianism as an aspect of Hindu culture and critical of the Modi government, of animal rights advocates and scholars who take a simplistic view of Indian culture's perception of animals, of broadly Western views of India as either a nation of abject poverty or a burgeoning super power primary audience is scholars of India, South Asia, postcolonial studies, animal studies, brings together animal studies and postcolonial studies Pays attention to the presence of animals in Indian art Will appeal to a general reader with an interest in conservation, vegetarianism, Indian history, urban animals, relationships between animals and humans, New and/or canonical Indian literature