<p><strong>CASSIE ADCOCK</strong>&nbsp;is Associate Professor in the Department of History and in the religious studies program at Washington University in St. Louis. She specializes in religion in the political culture of modern north India. Her first book,&nbsp;<em>The Limits of Tolerance: Indian Secularism and the Politics of Religious Freedom</em>&nbsp;(2013), addresses the politics of religious conversion in India by providing a critical history of tolerance, a secularist ideal central to the Gandhian tradition. Her current book project traces the long history of cow protection in north India from 1881 until 1969. Her work has been supported by a Fulbright Scholar Award, an NEH-AIIS Senior Research Fellowship,&nbsp;</p>