Breeding Bovine Animals for Better Productivity: High Modernist Mission

As argued in the introduction, within the history of cattle development in India, there is relatively less engagement with the question of breeding policies related to agricultural stock and milch stock and what transformations were witnessed during the late colonial period. Recent history writings that look at the cattle in India from the lens of veterinary medicine and disease control argues that even after the creation of Civil Veterinary DepartmentsCivil veterinary departments in British India, there was very little attention paid to epizootics amongst ‘public cattle’ as opposed to the attention that animals important for military (horses and elephants) received.