Colonial culinary encounters: Dietary transformations in the West and the East.
By: Gupta, Saumy
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BookPublisher: India International Center Description: 50(3&4), Winter 2023 Spring 2024: p.106-116.
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India International CenterSummary: In his introduction to popular region and Folklore of Northern India, celebrated colonial ethnographer William Crooke noted that along with onions and turpnps, to Brahmana and Rajputs also objected to potatoes, and refused to consume them ( Crooke, 1894: 288-89). Local ethnographic accounts from the late 19th century also list the potato as a foreign vegetable (vilayati tarari), generally avoided by Hindu ( Lal, 1875: 33). – Reproduced
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In his introduction to popular region and Folklore of Northern India, celebrated colonial ethnographer William Crooke noted that along with onions and turpnps, to Brahmana and Rajputs also objected to potatoes, and refused to consume them ( Crooke, 1894: 288-89). Local ethnographic accounts from the late 19th century also list the potato as a foreign vegetable (vilayati tarari), generally avoided by Hindu ( Lal, 1875: 33). – Reproduced
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