NEW DELHI: Dwijendra Narayan Jha, a mild-mannered historian, calmly recounts the death threats he received the last time India’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party was in government.
“The voice on the other end said: ‘We will kill you if you publish this book’,” the 74-year-old said of one of the anonymous calls designed to halt the publication of Holy Cow: Beef in Indian Dietary Traditions.
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