Festive Eating in a Metropolitan City: Caste and Commensality in Delhi
Mohini Mehta Doctoral Fellow, Uppsala University (Sweden) Email ID: mohinimehta1@gmail.com Delhi, often imagined as a cosmopolitan city that thrives on diversity, is also a site where deep-rooted cultural hierarchies seep into quotidian and festive food practices. Food in the city is not simply anchored on taste; it embodies commensality, the practice of eating together that anthropologists such as Arjun Appadurai (1981) describe as a powerful social marker. In South Asia, commensality...