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Culinary Culture in Colonial India
- A Cosmopolitan Platter and the Middle-Class
Af: Utsa Ray
Engelsk Hardback
Culinary Culture in Colonial India
- A Cosmopolitan Platter and the Middle-Class
Af: Utsa Ray
Engelsk Hardback

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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.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
280
ISBN-13:
9781107042810
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
110704281X
Udg. Dato:
5 jan 2015
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
174mm
Højde:
241mm
Forlag:
Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato:
5 jan 2015
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