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Food, Culture and Society in India

Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives

Edited by Rituparna Patgiri and Gurpinder Singh Lalli

330 pages, 12 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-254-1 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (November 2025)

eISBN 978-1-83695-255-8 eBook Not Yet Published


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“This is a volume that promises to go beyond the reductive archetypes of Indian food and succeeds in doing that with aplomb. It digs deep into disgust, digitization, littoral subaltern tastes, syntax and semiotics and Nipponization of NE Indian foods that is rarely brought together in one volume.” • Krishnendu Ray, New York University

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Exploring the entangled relationships between food, culture and society in India, this edited collection brings together empirically grounded research across diverse regions and contexts. Organised into four sections – Food, Culture and Identity; Food, Memory and Migration; Food, Livelihood and Nutrition; and Food, Consumption and Media – it highlights the complex roles food plays in shaping identity, mobility, labour and representation. Drawing from a range of disciplinary perspectives, the volume contributes to broader conversations in sociology, social anthropology, international development, geography, cultural studies and food studies, offering a textured account of contemporary foodways and their significance in everyday Indian life.

Rituparna Patgiri is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati. She has been a recipient of the Krishna Raj Fellowship, the Zubaan-Sassakawa Peace Foundation Grant for Young Researchers from the Northeast, the Wenner-Gren Foundation Grant, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati Start-Up Grant and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Grant.

Gurpinder Singh Lalli is a Professor in Education for Social Justice and Inclusion in the School of Education, University of Wolverhampton . He is a co-director and founding member of the Centre for Research in Education and Social Transformation (CREST). Lalli is an award-winning researcher and has authored 4 books including Food Futures in Education and Society (Routledge, 2023). He is also a Visiting Research Fellow in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Helsinki.

Subject: Food & NutritionSociologyAnthropology (General)
Area: Asia


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