Food, Culture and Society in India

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.

“This is a volume that promises to go beyond the reductive archetypes of Indian food and succeeds in doing that with aplomb. It digs deep into disgust, digitization, littoral subaltern tastes, syntax and semiotics and Nipponization of NE Indian foods that is rarely brought together in one volume.” • Krishnendu Ray, New York University

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionRituparna Patgiri and Gurpinder Singh LalliPart I: Food, Culture and IdentityChapter 1. ‘You Are What You Eat’: An Assessment of Evolving Identity of Caste and Changing Food PreferencesAniket NandanChapter 2. Cast(e)ing Curries: Creating the Culinary ‘Other’Neha AroraChapter 3. Littoral Gastronomies and Border Eating: Dismantling the Narratives of ‘Disgusting Food Habits’ by a Study of Culinary Practices of Coastal Communities in West BengalKashyapi Ghosh and Sayan DeyChapter 4. Eating Away (from) the National Consciousness: The Post-National Prospect of Street-Food in Muslim Localities of BiharMd Asif UzzamanChapter 5. Indian Masalas in Kosher Kitchens: Mapping Cultural History through Food Writings of Jewish-Indian WomenBarsha NayakChapter 6. Changing Patterns of Modern Food Habits in Nagaland: A Cake NarrativeVidekhono YhokhaPart II: Food, Memory and MigrationChapter 7. Eating Shutki in Postcolonial BengalRituparna RoyChapter 8. Food, Memory and Materiality in East African Asian Women’s Narratives: A Reading of Parita Mukta’s Shards of MemorySruthi Ranjani VinjamuriChapter 9. Kashmiri Cuisine as Collective Memory: How Kashmiri Muslims and Pandits Bond over FoodSehar Iqbal, Farah Qayoom and Fayaz Ahmad BhatChapter 10. In Search of a Recipe: ‘When I Cook our Food, I Belong – My Food Centres Me’Preetha ThomasChapter 11. More Than Just Kababs: Food Memories and Identities in Delhi’s Afghan Refugee AreasShirin Mehrotra          Part III: Food, Livelihood and NutritionChapter 12. Sprinkling Fortification: Gendering Food, Nutrition and Knowledge in Mid-Day MealsShreeja BanerjeeChapter 13. A Note on High-Yielding Variety Rice and Inequality in the Floodplains of Assam, IndiaSampurna DasPart IV: Food, Consumption and MediaChapter 14. Consuming Nippon: Food, Anime and Japanese Soft-Power in India’s NortheastMoureen Kalita and Aashirwad ChakravartyChapter 15. Are Food Advertisements Gendered? A Content Analysis of Post-Pandemic Bengali Print Advertisements on FoodAmrita Basu Roy ChowdhuryChapter 16. The Digitization of Uttarakhand’s Cuisine: A Case study of eUttaranchalDisha Bisht and Priyakshi PandeyChapter 17. Virtually Mediated Farms: Social Media, Digitalization and Organic Farms in IndiaSohini BhattacharjeeChapter 18. Food, Social Media and Representation: An Emergent Syntax of Homogenizing Indian HeterogeneityDiganta BhattacharyaConclusionRituparna Patgiri and Gurpinder Singh LalliIndex