THE POLITICS OF FOOD AND CUISINE RELIGION POWER AND GENDER IN THE MAKING OF FOOD IN COLONIAL MALABAR

Abstract

The present study is an attempt to explore how the praxis of religion newlinesocial norms and gender which were already being redefined and reformulated newlineby the impact of colonialism went into the making of food and cuisine in the 19th newlineand 20th century Malabar Though there is some general awareness about the newlinechanging food habits of Kerala in the last two or three centuries no historical newlinestudies had so far been attempted to trace the linkages of the changing newlineingredients and the culinary habits that constituted the food and dining patterns newlineof the people in the British colonial era through the exercise of power that newlinegenerated by the agencies like religion society and gender The question of food newlineand cuisine has always been one of the central concerns in the construction of newlinecolonial modernity in terms of the society of India in general and society of newlineKerala in particular newline