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Published 1990
Good ham was not often to be found in India. When it was, its habitat (off the hoof) was in the provisioned in the larger cities rather than in the remote countryside. It was not that pigs were not to be found - indeed, pigsticking was a popular sport, and wild pig roamed the dak jungle, or low, bushy scrub, frequently devastating the crops of the villagers - it was that the eating of pork was the preserve of the White Man, the Raj, for the meat was considered unclean by the majority
