Usha Sanyal is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Political Science at Wingate University, North Carolina, USA.Nita Kumar is Brown Family Professor of South Asian History at Claremont McKenna College in California, USA.

The essays in this collection provide illuminating insights into issues of women’s agency in the areas of the politics and culture of food. They represent a highly significant intervention in the field of South Asian food studies.

• Introduction: The Politics and Culture of Food: South Asian Women and Their AgencyNita Kumar, Claremont McKenna College, California, USA and Usha Sanyal, Wingate University, North Carolina, USA2. Curing the Body and Soul: Health, Food, and Herbal Medicines for Nineteenth-Century South Asian Muslim WomenLaurel Steele, Independent Scholar, USA3. The Worship of Taste: Rokeya Hossain and the Politics of Ritual FastingParna Sengupta, Stanford University, California, USA4. Religious Recipes: Culinary Motherlines of Feasts and Fasts in IndiaSucharita Sarkar, D.T.S.S. College of Commerce, Mumbai, India5. Transcendental Transactions: Food Practices among Barelwi MuslimsSumbul Farah received her Ph.D. from the University of Delhi, India6. Between Khatm-e Qur’ans and Slametans: Gender and Class in South Asian and Indonesian Interdomestic RitualsPnina Werbner is Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology at Keele University, UK7. Buddhist Women and Alms-GivingPascale Engelmajer, Carroll University, USA8. Women’s Ritually Shared Bodies and Food-Penance in Rural MaharashtraDeepra Dandekar, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin9. Fasting as a Complex Professional StrategyNita Kumar, Claremont McKenna College, California, USA10. Fasting, Feasting: Social and Religious Food Practices at a Barelwi Girls’ MadrasaUsha Sanyal, Wingate University, USA11. Praying in the Kitchen: The Tablighi Jama’at and Female PietyDarakshan Khan International Institute of Islamic Thought in Washington, DC, USAIndex

Usha Sanyal is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Political Science at Wingate University, North Carolina, USA.Nita Kumar is Brown Family Professor of South Asian History at Claremont McKenna College in California, USA.

The essays in this collection provide illuminating insights into issues of women’s agency in the areas of the politics and culture of food. They represent a highly significant intervention in the field of South Asian food studies.

• Introduction: The Politics and Culture of Food: South Asian Women and Their AgencyNita Kumar, Claremont McKenna College, California, USA and Usha Sanyal, Wingate University, North Carolina, USA2. Curing the Body and Soul: Health, Food, and Herbal Medicines for Nineteenth-Century South Asian Muslim WomenLaurel Steele, Independent Scholar, USA3. The Worship of Taste: Rokeya Hossain and the Politics of Ritual FastingParna Sengupta, Stanford University, California, USA4. Religious Recipes: Culinary Motherlines of Feasts and Fasts in IndiaSucharita Sarkar, D.T.S.S. College of Commerce, Mumbai, India5. Transcendental Transactions: Food Practices among Barelwi MuslimsSumbul Farah received her Ph.D. from the University of Delhi, India6. Between Khatm-e Qur’ans and Slametans: Gender and Class in South Asian and Indonesian Interdomestic RitualsPnina Werbner is Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology at Keele University, UK7. Buddhist Women and Alms-GivingPascale Engelmajer, Carroll University, USA8. Women’s Ritually Shared Bodies and Food-Penance in Rural MaharashtraDeepra Dandekar, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin9. Fasting as a Complex Professional StrategyNita Kumar, Claremont McKenna College, California, USA10. Fasting, Feasting: Social and Religious Food Practices at a Barelwi Girls’ MadrasaUsha Sanyal, Wingate University, USA11. Praying in the Kitchen: The Tablighi Jama’at and Female PietyDarakshan Khan International Institute of Islamic Thought in Washington, DC, USAIndex

Usha Sanyal is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Political Science at Wingate University, North Carolina, USA.Nita Kumar is Brown Family Professor of South Asian History at Claremont McKenna College in California, USA.

The essays in this collection provide illuminating insights into issues of women’s agency in the areas of the politics and culture of food. They represent a highly significant intervention in the field of South Asian food studies.

• Introduction: The Politics and Culture of Food: South Asian Women and Their AgencyNita Kumar, Claremont McKenna College, California, USA and Usha Sanyal, Wingate University, North Carolina, USA2. Curing the Body and Soul: Health, Food, and Herbal Medicines for Nineteenth-Century South Asian Muslim WomenLaurel Steele, Independent Scholar, USA3. The Worship of Taste: Rokeya Hossain and the Politics of Ritual FastingParna Sengupta, Stanford University, California, USA4. Religious Recipes: Culinary Motherlines of Feasts and Fasts in IndiaSucharita Sarkar, D.T.S.S. College of Commerce, Mumbai, India5. Transcendental Transactions: Food Practices among Barelwi MuslimsSumbul Farah received her Ph.D. from the University of Delhi, India6. Between Khatm-e Qur’ans and Slametans: Gender and Class in South Asian and Indonesian Interdomestic RitualsPnina Werbner is Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology at Keele University, UK7. Buddhist Women and Alms-GivingPascale Engelmajer, Carroll University, USA8. Women’s Ritually Shared Bodies and Food-Penance in Rural MaharashtraDeepra Dandekar, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin9. Fasting as a Complex Professional StrategyNita Kumar, Claremont McKenna College, California, USA10. Fasting, Feasting: Social and Religious Food Practices at a Barelwi Girls’ MadrasaUsha Sanyal, Wingate University, USA11. Praying in the Kitchen: The Tablighi Jama’at and Female PietyDarakshan Khan International Institute of Islamic Thought in Washington, DC, USAIndex