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
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| Summary: | Discusses the cuisine to understand the construction of colonial middle-class in Bengal |
| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis Seite 239-263 |
| Physical Description: | IX, 274 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781107042810 |
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List of Images, Maps and Tables v
Preface vii
Introduction 1
1. Introducing ‘Foreign’ Food: Changes in the Gastronomic 23
Culture of Colonial Bengal
2. The Cosmopolitan and the Regional: Understanding 62
Bengali Cuisine
3. Aestheticizing Labor? An Affective Discourse of Cooking 106
in Colonial Bengal
4. Constructing ‘Bengali’ Cuisine: Caste, Class and 149
Communal Negotiations
5. Fashioning the ‘Bengali’ Middle-Class: Dilemma of 192
the Regional and the Subregional
Conclusion 229
Select Bibliography 239
Index 265
This book utilizes the idea of cuisine to understand the construction of the
colonial middle-class in Bengal. Colonial transformation contextualized the
cultural articulation of a new set of values, prejudices and tastes for the
colonial middle-class. This middle-class ensured that cuisine was not
commoditized and remained domestic and embedded in the material culture
of Bengal. One of the chief arguments of this book is that the middle-class in
colonial Bengal indigenized new culinary experiences that came with
colonialism. This process of indigenization was an aesthetic choice imbricated
in the upper caste and patriarchal agenda of middle-class social reform.
While enabling the middle-class to soak in new culinary pleasures, the
process of indigenization also made possible certain social practices, including
imagination of the act of cooking as a classic feminine act and the domestic
kitchen as a sacred space. In these acts of imagination, there were important
elements of continuity from the pre-colonial times, especially evidenced in
the reinstitution of caste-based norms of gastronomy. The process of
indigenizing new gastronomic practices was at the same time anti-colonial
yet capitalist, cosmopolitan yet gendered and caste based. Thus, the idea of a
refined taste that was so integrally associated with the formation of the
middle-class in colonial Bengal became a marker of standards of good and
bad, acceptance of certain things, rejection of some others and in Pierre
Bourdieu s apt phrase disgust for other tastes.1
Utsa Ray teaches at the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
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