Food, culture and society in India social, political, economic and cultural perspectives / edited by Rituparna Patgiri and Gurpinder Singh Lalli.
| Other author | Patgiri, Rituparna |
| Other author | Lalli, Gurpinder Singh |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Berghahn, 2026. |
| Description | ix, 321 pages illustrations 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | illustrations |
| Contents | 'You are what you eat' : an assessment of evolving identity of caste and changing food preferences / Aniket Nandan -- Cast(e)ing curries : creating the culinary 'other' / Neha Arora -- Littoral gastronomies and border eating : dismantling the narratives of 'disgusting food habits' by a study of culinary practices of coastal communities in West Bengal / Kashyapi Ghosh and Sayan Dey -- Eating away (from) the national consciousness : the post-national prospect of street-food in Muslim localities of Bihar / Md Asif Uzzaman -- Indian masalas in kosher kitchens : mapping cultural history through food writings of Jewish-Indian women / Barsha Nayak -- Changing patterns of modern food habits in Nagaland : a cake narrative / Videkhono Yhokha -- Eating shutki in postcolonial Bengal / Rituparna Roy -- Food, memory and materiality in east African Asian women's narratives : a reading of Parita Mukta's shards of memory / Sruthi Ranjani Vinjamuri -- Kashmiri cuisine as collective memory : how Kashmiri Muslims and Pandits bond over food / Sehar Iqbal, Farah Qayoom and Fayaz Ahmad Bhat -- In search of a recipe : 'when i cook our food, i belong - my food centres me' / Preetha Thomas -- More than just kababs : food memories and identities in Delhi's Afghan refugee areas / Shirin Mehrotra -- Sprinkling fortification : gendering food, nutrition and knowledge in mid-day meals / Shreeja Banerjee -- A note on high-yielding variety rice and inequality in the floodplains of Assam, India / Sampurna Das -- Consuming Nippon : food, anime and Japanese soft-power in India's Northeast / Moureen Kalita and Aashirwad Chakravarty -- Are food advertisements gendered? A content analysis of post-pandemic Bengali print advertisements on food / Amrita Basu Roy Chowdhury -- The digitization of Uttarakhand's cuisine : a case study of eUttaranchal / Disha Bisht and Priyakshi Pandey -- Virtually mediated farms : social media, digitalization and organic farms in India / Sohini Bhattacharjee -- Food, social media and representation : an emergent syntax of homogenizing Indian heterogeneity / Diganta Bhattacharya. |
| Abstract | "Exploring the relationship between food, culture and society in India, this book is organised into four broad sections: 1) Food, Culture and Identity, 2) Food, Memory and Migration, 3) Food, Livelihood and Nutrition and 4) Food, Consumption and Media. The book highlights the complexities surrounding food in India, bringing together a rich collection of narratives which are informed by empirically driven research. The volume will be useful to students of multiple disciplines, cutting across sociology, social anthropology, international development, geography, culture studies and food studies"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2025030781 |
| ISBN | 9781836952541 hardback |
| ISBN | epub |
| ISBN | adobe pdf |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |