Food, Culture and Society in India : Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patgiri, Rituparna.

Contributor:

Lalli, Gurpinder Singh.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2025.

Summary:

Bringing together empirical research from across India, this volume examines how food intersects with identity, migration, livelihood and media. It offers interdisciplinary insights into the cultural, political and social dimensions of food in contemporary Indian life.

Contents:

Food, Culture and Society in India

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I. Food, Culture and Identity

Chapter 1. 'You Are What You Eat'

Chapter 2. Cast(e)ing Curries

Chapter 3. Littoral Gastronomies and Border Eating

Chapter 4. Eating Away (from) the National Consciousness

Chapter 5. Indian Masalas in Kosher Kitchens

Chapter 6. Changing Patterns of Modern Food Habits in Nagaland

Part II. Food, Memory and Migration

Chapter 7. Eating Shutki in Postcolonial Bengal

Chapter 8. Food, Memory and Materiality in East African Asian Women's Narratives

Chapter 9. Kashmiri Cuisine as Collective Memory

Chapter 10. In Search of a Recipe

Chapter 11. More Than Just Kababs

Part III. Food, Livelihood and Nutrition

Chapter 12. Sprinkling Fortification

Chapter 13. A Note on High-Yielding Variety Rice and Inequality in the Floodplains of Assam, India

Part IV. Food, Consumption and Media

Chapter 14. Consuming Nippon

Chapter 15. Are Food Advertisements Gendered?

Chapter 16. The Digitization of Uttarakhand's Cuisine

Chapter 17. Virtually Mediated Farms

Chapter 18. Food, Social Media, Representation

Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-83695-256-2

OCLC:

1545081294