Goshala

Gaushalas or Goshalas (Hindi: गौशाला, romanized: gauśālā) are protective shelters for stray cow in India.

Government grants and donations are the primary source of income of the cow shelters in India.

[3] The movement spread rapidly all over North India and to Bengal, Bombay, Madras presidencies and other central provinces.

The organization rescued wandering cows and reclaimed them to groom them in places called gaushalas.

Charitable networks developed all through North India to collect rice from individuals, pool the contributions, and re-sell them to fund the gaushalas.

World's First Gaushala, Rewari
A goshala at Guntur , Andhra Pradesh .
A Goshala at Mayapur ISKCON Temple compound, West Bengal
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru visiting a Goshala during his Gujarat tour in 1949
Cow dung cakes plastered over the wall for drying in Varanasi.