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Much Ado Over Coffee: Indian Coffee House Then And Now book cover

1st Edition

Much Ado Over Coffee Indian Coffee House Then And Now

By Bhaswati Bhattacharya Copyright 2018
432 Pages
by Routledge

432 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

432 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Based on oral history, fiction, fascinating intellectual gossip, and records of the Coffee Board of India, this study is a multi-sited ethnography of the Indian Coffee House, possibly the world’s first coffee house chain. It offers a critical analysis of adda (informal meetings) of the educated middle class in Allahabad, Calcutta  and Delhi. The coffee house became the new... Read more

1. Adda and Public Spaces of Sociability before the ICH 2. India Coffee House: A New Space in the City 3. The Workers and the Coffee House: From ‘India’ to ‘Indian’ 4. The Indian Coffee House and the World of Literature 5. Brewing Discontent Instead of Coffee? 6. How Public is the Public Space of the Indian Coffee House? 7. The Middle Class and Coffee Houses: Old and New

Biography

Bhaswati Bhattacharya is a historian affiliated with the Centre for Modern Indian Studies in Göttingen. Her publications include Bhattacharya et al The diary and photographs of Jan Kornelis De Cock during his trip to India 1909–10, Leiden: Roelof Barkhuis,  2014.

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