Uttar Pradesh’s Five Deshi Cows: Gangatiri, Mewati, Kherigarh, Ponwar, and Kenkatha Uttar Pradesh is a land of rivers, plains, and ancient agricultural memory — home to the Ganga, the Yamuna, the Ken, the Saryu, and a dozen sacred tributaries. It is fitting, then, that the state’s five indigenous cow breeds

Haryana’s Three Deshi Cows: Hariana, Mewati, and Belahi By Sumit Haryana is not a large state. But within its flat plains, its river-fed borderlands, and its Shivalik foothills, three distinct indigenous cow breeds have quietly sustained civilizations — ploughing fields, pulling carts, nursing calves, and giving milk long before a

Madhya Pradesh’s Four Deshi Cows: Malvi, Nimari, Gaolao, and Kenkatha Madhya Pradesh sits at the geographical heart of India — and its four indigenous cow breeds reflect the remarkable diversity of that central position. The Malwa plateau, the Narmada valley, the forests of Gondwana, and the rocky Bundelkhand terrain have

Rajasthan’s Living Heritage: The Seven Deshi Cow Breeds of the Desert State By Sumit Rajasthan is a land of extremes — of burning sands and ice-cold winter nights, of dust storms and sudden monsoon abundance, of scarcity that tests every living thing to its limits. And yet, across this vast

Gujarat’s Five Deshi Cows: Gir, Kankrej, Dangi, Nari, and Dagri Gujarat is the westernmost expression of India’s great bovine civilisation. From the sacred forests of Kathiawar to the salt flats of the Rann of Kutch, from the rain-drenched hills of the Dangs to the tribal highlands bordering Rajasthan, this single