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Critical Themes in Indian Sociology brings together the writings of a number of scholars—both well established and younger, in India and in different parts of the world—on various themes that express the richness and diversity that defines sociological scholarship on India. The book reflects changes in scholarship over time and charts out new subjects and methods for the study of social life in India. Commemorating the 50 plus years since Contributions to Indian Sociology was first published, this book is a tribute to a journal that has sustained an internationally acclaimed and rigorous sociological engagement with India. Comprising a wide range of themes such as village, city, class, caste, politics, gender, sexuality, media, food and education, this book presents a concise, yet in-depth sense of a sociological view of India today.
New Cultures of Food Studies
New Cultures of Food Studies
Introduction
During his travels in South Asia in the 1940s, Claude Lévi-Strauss visited a young teacher's flat in Dhaka (then Dacca) and shared a meal with his family. As he recounted in Tristes Tropiques:
Squatting on the concrete floor, in the dim light of a single bulb hanging by its flex from the ceiling, I once—oh, Arabian nights!—ate a dinner full of succulent ancestral savours, picking up the food with my fingers: first, Khichuri, rice and the small lentils…. Then nimkorma, broiled chicken; chingri cari, an oily fruity stew of giant shrimps, and another stew with hard-boiled eggs called dimer tak, accompanied by cucumber sauce, shosha; finally the dessert, firni, made of ...
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