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In nineteenth-century Europe and North America, an organized
vegetarian movement began warning of the health risks and ethical
problems of meat eating. Presenting a vegetarian diet as a cure for
the social ills brought on by industrialization and urbanization,
this movement idealized South Asia as a model. In colonial India,
where diets were far more varied than Western admirers realized,
new motives for avoiding meat also took hold. Hindu nationalists
claimed that vegetarianism would cleanse the body for anticolonial
resistance, and an increasingly militant cow protection movement
mobilized against meat eaters, particularly Muslims. Unearthing the
connections among these developments and many others, Julia Hauser
explores the global history of vegetarianism from the
mid-nineteenth century to the early Cold War. She traces personal
networks and exchanges of knowledge spanning Europe, the United
States, and South Asia, highlighting mutual influence as well as
the disconnects of cross-cultural encounters. Hauser argues that
vegetarianism in this period was motivated by expansive visions of
moral, physical, and even racial purification. Adherents were
convinced that society could be changed by transforming the body of
the individual. Hauser 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. Finding preoccupations with race and masculinity as
well as links to colonialism and eugenics, she reveals the
implication of vegetarian movements in exclusionary, hierarchical
projects. Deeply researched and compellingly argued, A Taste for
Purity rewrites the history of vegetarianism on a global scale.
In nineteenth-century Europe and North America, an organized
vegetarian movement began warning of the health risks and ethical
problems of meat eating. Presenting a vegetarian diet as a cure for
the social ills brought on by industrialization and urbanization,
this movement idealized South Asia as a model. In colonial India,
where diets were far more varied than Western admirers realized,
new motives for avoiding meat also took hold. Hindu nationalists
claimed that vegetarianism would cleanse the body for anticolonial
resistance, and an increasingly militant cow protection movement
mobilized against meat eaters, particularly Muslims. Unearthing the
connections among these developments and many others, Julia Hauser
explores the global history of vegetarianism from the
mid-nineteenth century to the early Cold War. She traces personal
networks and exchanges of knowledge spanning Europe, the United
States, and South Asia, highlighting mutual influence as well as
the disconnects of cross-cultural encounters. Hauser argues that
vegetarianism in this period was motivated by expansive visions of
moral, physical, and even racial purification. Adherents were
convinced that society could be changed by transforming the body of
the individual. Hauser 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. Finding preoccupations with race and masculinity as
well as links to colonialism and eugenics, she reveals the
implication of vegetarian movements in exclusionary, hierarchical
projects. Deeply researched and compellingly argued, A Taste for
Purity rewrites the history of vegetarianism on a global scale.
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