ISBN:
9781107337503
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online Ressource (IX, 274 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Culinary culture in Colonial India
DDC:
394.1/2095414
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-1955
;
Alltag, Brauchtum
;
Geschichte
;
Gesellschaft
;
Food habits / India / Bengal / History
;
Food habits / Social aspects / India / Bengal / History
;
Middle class / India / Bengal / History
;
Mittelstand
;
Essgewohnheit
;
Indien
;
Bengal (India) / Social life and customs
;
Bengalen
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Bengalen
;
Mittelstand
;
Essgewohnheit
;
Geschichte 1900-1955
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781107337503
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