Culinary culture in colonial India : a cosmopolitan platter and the middle-class / Utsa Ray.
- Ray, Utsa
- Date:
- 2015
- Books
About this work
Description
"Discusses the cuisine to understand the construction of colonial middle-class in Bengal"-- Provided by publisher.
Publication/Creation
Delhi, India : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Physical description
ix, 274 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
Contributors
Contents
Introducing 'foreign' food : changes in the gastronomic culture of colonial Bengal -- The cosmopolitan and the regional : understanding Bengali cuisine -- Aestheticizing labor? : an affective discourse of cooking in colonial Bengal -- Constructing 'Bengali' cuisine : caste, class and communal negotiations -- Fashioning the 'Bengali' middle-class : dilemma of the regional and the sub-regional.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-263) and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineDFXP.23Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9781107042810
- 110704281X