00850nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100001900041245007400060260003400134300003400168520050400202773003400706260428b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aDias, Michelle  aKanji as commons: Everyday food and politics of traditional knowledge  aEconomic & Political Weekly    a61(12), Mar 21, 2026: p.21-23  aIn India, kanji is more than food; it is a social practice, a medicinal comfort, and an ecological memory of rice cultivation. The preparation of kanji encodes knowledge of rice varieties, seasonal rhythms, fermentation, and the gendered labour of caregiving. Yet, despite this richness, kanji and similar forms of everyday food knowledge rarely figure within the frameworks of traditional knowledge protection in India.-Reproduced 

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