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

"Discusses the cuisine to understand the construction of colonial middle-class in Bengal"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ray, Utsa
Format: Printed Book
Subjects:
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.