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Exploring the entangled relationships between food, culture and society in India, this edited collection brings together empirically grounded research across diverse regions and contexts. Organised into four sections - Food, Culture and Identity; Food, Memory and Migration; Food, Livelihood and Nutrition; and Food, Consumption and Media - it highlights the complex roles food plays in shaping identity, mobility, labour and representation. Drawing from a range of disciplinary perspectives, the volume contributes to broader conversations in sociology, social anthropology, international development, geography, cultural studies and food studies, offering a textured account of contemporary foodways and their significance in everyday Indian life.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Rituparna Patgiri and Gurpinder Singh Lalli
Part I: Food, Culture and Identity
Chapter 1. 'You Are What You Eat': An Assessment of Evolving Identity of Caste and Changing Food Preferences
Aniket Nandan
Chapter 2. Cast(e)ing Curries: Creating the Culinary 'Other'
Neha Arora
Chapter 3. 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
Chapter 4. Eating Away (from) the National Consciousness: The Post-National Prospect of Street-Food in Muslim Localities of Bihar
Md Asif Uzzaman
Chapter 5. Indian Masalas in Kosher Kitchens: Mapping Cultural History through Food Writings of Jewish-Indian Women
Barsha Nayak
Chapter 6. Changing Patterns of Modern Food Habits in Nagaland: A Cake Narrative
Videkhono Yhokha
Part II: Food, Memory and Migration
Chapter 7. Eating Shutki in Postcolonial Bengal
Rituparna Roy
Chapter 8. Food, Memory and Materiality in East African Asian Women's Narratives: A Reading of Parita Mukta's Shards of Memory
Sruthi Ranjani Vinjamuri
Chapter 9. Kashmiri Cuisine as Collective Memory: How Kashmiri Muslims and Pandits Bond over Food
Sehar Iqbal, Farah Qayoom and Fayaz Ahmad Bhat
Chapter 10. In Search of a Recipe: 'When I Cook our Food, I Belong - My Food Centres Me'
Preetha Thomas
Chapter 11. More Than Just Kababs: Food Memories and Identities in Delhi's Afghan Refugee Areas
Shirin Mehrotra
Part III: Food, Livelihood and Nutrition
Chapter 12. Sprinkling Fortification: Gendering Food, Nutrition and Knowledge in Mid-Day Meals
Shreeja Banerjee
Chapter 13. A Note on High-Yielding Variety Rice and Inequality in the Floodplains of Assam, India
Sampurna Das
Part IV: Food, Consumption and Media
Chapter 14. Consuming Nippon: Food, Anime and Japanese Soft-Power in India's Northeast
Moureen Kalita and Aashirwad Chakravarty
Chapter 15. Are Food Advertisements Gendered? A Content Analysis of Post-Pandemic Bengali Print Advertisements on Food
Amrita Basu Roy Chowdhury
Chapter 16. The Digitization of Uttarakhand's Cuisine: A Case study of eUttaranchal
Disha Bisht and Priyakshi Pandey
Chapter 17. Virtually Mediated Farms: Social Media, Digitalization and Organic Farms in India
Sohini Bhattacharjee
Chapter 18. Food, Social Media and Representation: An Emergent Syntax of Homogenizing Indian Heterogeneity
Diganta Bhattacharya
Conclusion
Rituparna Patgiri and Gurpinder Singh Lalli
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