Culinary culture in colonial India : a cosmopolitan platter and the middle class

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    • Ray, Utsa

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Culinary culture in colonial India : a cosmopolitan platter and the middle class

Utsa Ray

Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-263) and index

Summary: "Discusses the cuisine to understand the construction of colonial middle-class in Bengal"-- Provided by publisher

収録内容

  • 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

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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 cuisine cannot be labeled as indigenist although it never became widely commercialized. The point was to cosmopolitanize the domestic and yet keep its tag of 'Bengaliness'. The resultant cuisine was hybrid, in many senses like its makers.

目次

  • List of images, maps and tables
  • Introduction
  • 1. Introducing 'foreign' food: changes in the gastronomic culture of colonial Bengal
  • 2. The cosmopolitan and the regional: understanding Bengali cuisine
  • 3. Aestheticizing labor? An affective discourse of cooking in colonial Bengal
  • 4. Constructing 'Bengali' cuisine caste: class and communal negotiations
  • 5. Fashioning the 'Bengali' middle class: dilemma of the regional and the subregional
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the author.

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