Feasts and fasts : a history of food in India / Colleen Taylor Sen.

By:

Sen, Colleen Taylor [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Foods and nationsPublisher: London, UK ; New Delhi : Reaktion Books ; Speaking Tiger, 2015Description: 349 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9789385755347 (pbk.)
9781780233918
1780233914

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DDC classification:

641.300954 SEN 23 010835

LOC classification:

GT2853.I4 S46 2015

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Contents:

Cover; Feasts and Fasts: A History of Food in India; Imprint Page; Contents; Introduction; One: Climate, Crops and Prehistory; Two: The Age of Ritual, 1700-1100 BCE; Three: The Renunciant Tradition and Vegetarianism, 1000-300 BCE ; Four: Global India and the New Orthodoxy, 300 BCE -- 500 CE ; Five: New Religious Trends and Movements: Feasting and Fasting, 500-1000 CE ; Six: Food and Indian Doctors, 600 Bce-600 CE ; Seven: The Middle Ages: The Manasolassa, Lokopakara and Regional Cuisines, 600-1300 CE; Eight: The Delhi Sultanate: Ni'matnama, Supa Shastra and Ksemakutuhalam, 1300-1550.

Nine: The Mughal Dynasty and its Successors, 1526-1857Ten: The Europeans, the Princes and their Legacy, 1500-1947; Eleven: An Overview of Indian Cuisine: The Meal, Cooking Techniques and Regional Variations; Twelve: New Trends in Indian Food, 1947-Present; Thirteen: The Food of the Indian Diaspora; Timeline; References; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements; Index.

Summary: From dal to samosas, paneer to vindaloo, dosa to naan, Indian food is diverse and wide-ranging-unsurprising when you consider India's incredible range of climates, languages, religions, tribes, and customs. Its cuisine differs from north to south, yet what is it that makes Indian food recognizably Indian, and how did it get that way? To answer those questions, Colleen Taylor Sen examines the diet of the Indian subcontinent for thousands of years, describing the country's cuisine in the context of its religious, moral, social, and philosophical development. Exploring the ancient ind.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	641.300954 SEN 010835 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		010835

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From dal to samosas, paneer to vindaloo, dosa to naan, Indian food is diverse and wide-ranging-unsurprising when you consider India's incredible range of climates, languages, religions, tribes, and customs. Its cuisine differs from north to south, yet what is it that makes Indian food recognizably Indian, and how did it get that way? To answer those questions, Colleen Taylor Sen examines the diet of the Indian subcontinent for thousands of years, describing the country's cuisine in the context of its religious, moral, social, and philosophical development. Exploring the ancient ind.

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