Offered without comment (primarily to show how complex issues are covered when the country in question is not India). https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/22/africa/mundari-tribe-cattle-photography/index.html

It's hard to overstate the importance of cattle to the Mundari people," says Zaidi, "these animals are everything to them."

"Each bovine is so highly prized that it is rarely killed for its meat. Instead, it is a walking larder, a pharmacy, a dowry, even a friend. It is clear that cow is a resource maintaining not just a people, but a way of life."

Zaidi says the Mundari have no taste for war and "their guns are not to kill anyone but to protect their herd." All the Mundari want to do is take care of their livestock, he argues, "and they will protect them at all costs."