This book is a brilliant work of ethnography, based on the author, Radhika Govindrajan's field work in rural Uttarakhand (a state in India). It is very effective in capturing the politics and different perspectives of interspecies relationships which she portrays both with academic rigour and with a narrative style that makes this work truly appeasing to read.

It is grounded in feminist and postcolonial thinking, which captures the history, legality, and various modern cross-sections of the anthropological subject (i.e human beings) with their different animal counterparts in an Indian setting. The author also constructs a very beautiful vocabulary which can be useful for people looking to verbalise their perception of multispecies affection, I certainly did. Here, the author extends the boundaries of man-animal relations beyond the oft-narrated conflict in the anthropomorphic era, by adding radical feminist, anti-caste and political perspectives to a work of anthropology