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Culinary Culture in Colonial India

By: Utsa Ray

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Culinary Culture in Colonial India

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

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110704281X

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9781107042810

Culinary Culture in Colonial India

A Cosmopolitan Platter and the Middle-Class

By: Utsa Ray

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A Cosmopolitan Platter and the Middle-Class

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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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1316222675

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Race, Class, Parenting and Children’s Leisure

Children’s Leisurescapes and Parenting Cultures in Middle-class British Indian Families

By: Utsa Mukherjee

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Children’s Leisurescapes and Parenting Cultures in Middle-class British Indian Families

By: Utsa Mukherjee

Children’s leisure lives are changing, with increasing dominance of organised activities and screen-based leisure. These shifts have reconfigured parenting practices, too. However, our current understandings of these processes are race-blind and based mostly on the experiences of white middle-class families. Drawing on an innovative study of middle-class British Indian families, this book brings children’s and parents’ voices to the forefront and bridges childhood studies, family studies and leisure studies to theorise children’s leisure from a fresh perspective. Demonstrating the salience of both race and class in shaping leisure cultures within middle-class racialised families, this is an invaluable contribution to key sociological debates around leisure, childhoods and parenting ideologies.

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183

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Policy Press

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1529219531

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Culinary Culture in Colonial India

Culinary Culture in Colonial India

Culinary Culture in Colonial India

Culinary Culture in Colonial India

Race, Class, Parenting and Children’s Leisure

Race, Class, Parenting and Children’s Leisure

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