A world of nourishment : reflections on food in Indian culture

• Information

  DESCRIPTION

  352 p.

  SERIES

  Consonanze ; 3
  

  DISCIPLINES

  • Food and drink
  • Indo-Iranian Languages and Literature

  SUBJECTS HEADINGS

  • Indic literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses
  • Food in literature -- Congresses
  • Food habits in literature -- Congresses
• In this volume

  • Preface, and a homage to Professor Giuliano Boccali
  • Some marginal linguistic notes about Ṛgveda 1.187, annastuti
  • Praājpati is hungry : how can the concept of eating be used in philosophy?
  • What the king ate? : on the ambivalence towards eating meat during the second half of the 1st millennium BCE.
  • Magical kitchens or hunting? : how to survive in the epic jungle
  • Notes on fast in India
  • Tasting, feasting and chasing the great enemy hunger – some attitudes and habits as reflected in Old Tamil Sangam works
  • The semantics of food in old Tamil poetry
  • From fast to feast : the aśana discourse of the Vidūṣaka in Kerala's traditional Sanskrit theatre
  • A suitable girl : Daṇḍin and a meal on the banks of the Kāverī
  • What to take on a wild goose chase : the journeys of two feathered messengers in Sanskrit dūtakāvya
  • When poetry is ripe : an overview of the theory of kāvyapāka
  • Betel chewing in kāvya literature and Indian art.
  • The food of gods – naivedya/nirmālya in the Pāñcarātrika sources
  • Impregnating food : the miraculous conception motif in Indian narratives
  • Let the feast go on : Food and eating on the battlefield of Laṅkā
  • Eating and fasting to liberate the Mind : some remarks on the theme of food in Keśavdās's Vijñānagītā
  • Visual representations of aphrodisiacs in India from the 20th to the 10th century CE.
  • Governing the body and the state : Akbar's vegetarianism through the lenses of coeval literary sources
  • With Bharatendu Harishchandra through the food-bazaar of Andher Nagarī
  • The theme of hunger in Kafan, a short story by Prem Chand
  • The food motif in the writings of Hindi women writers
  • Present-day Annapurnas : food in Hindi life writings by women
  • Food and fasting : Representing the traditional role of women in Hindi cinema
  • Fowl-cutlets and mutton singāḍās : Intercultural food and cuisine/s in Bengali detective fiction
  • Meat & flesh : A reading of Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting
  • A man is what he eats, and what he doesn't : on the use of traditional food culture in Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting and Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace
  • Mourning for the dead, feeding the living : mausar khānā