Food, Culture and Society in India

Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives

Rituparna Patgiri, Gurpinder Singh Lalli (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

330 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781836952541 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Rituparna Patgiri is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati. She has been a recipient of the Krishna Raj Fellowship, the Zubaan-Sassakawa Peace Foundation Grant for Young Researchers from the Northeast, the Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati Start-Up Grant and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Grant.

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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

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.10.2025
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781836952541 / 9781836952541
Zustand	Neuware