Cassie Adcock is a historian of modern South Asia with a research focus on religion, secularism, and Hindu politics in India. In her teaching and scholarship, she explores the connected and divergent histories of racial theories and ethno-religious violence in British imperialism, Indian nationalism, national and transnational schemes for economic development, and cattle breeding. Her current book, Sacred Cow Country: Hindu Politics from Eugenics to the Price of Milk, de-exoticizes the politics of cow protection – a central Hindu nationalist tenet and cause for Hindu vigilante violence in India today – by showing its entanglements, from the nineteenth century through the present, with histories of eugenics, reproductive politics, and economic development in India, Britain, and the United States.