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Culinary Culture in Colonial India: A Cosmopolitan Platter and the Middle-Class
Utsa Ray
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Description for Culinary Culture in Colonial India: A Cosmopolitan Platter and the Middle-Class
hardcover. This book discusses cuisine to understand the construction of the colonial middle class in Bengal, India. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBTB; HBTQ; JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 174 x 24. Weight in Grams: 598.
This book utilizes cuisine to understand the construction of the colonial middle class in Bengal who indigenized new culinary experiences as a result of colonial modernity. This process of indigenization developed certain social practices, including imagination of the act of cooking as a classic feminine act and the domestic kitchen as a sacred space. The process of indigenization was an aesthetic choice that was imbricated in the upper caste and patriarchal agenda of the middle-class social reform. However, in these acts of imagination, there were important elements of continuity from the pre-colonial times. The book establishes the fact that Bengali ... Read more
This book utilizes cuisine to understand the construction of the colonial middle class in Bengal who indigenized new culinary experiences as a result of colonial modernity. This process of indigenization developed certain social practices, including imagination of the act of cooking as a classic feminine act and the domestic kitchen as a sacred space. The process of indigenization was an aesthetic choice that was imbricated in the upper caste and patriarchal agenda of the middle-class social reform. However, in these acts of imagination, there were important elements of continuity from the pre-colonial times. The book establishes the fact that Bengali ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107042810
SKU
V9781107042810
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Ref
99-15
About Utsa Ray
Utsa Ray is assistant professor at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She is primarily interested in looking at how taste and consumption aids in the construction of class. She has published widely in journals such as Modern Asian Studies and the Indian Economic and Social History Review.
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