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The Taj Mahal in the High Street: the Indian restaurant as diasporic popular culture in Britain

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posted on 2023-06-08, 08:33 authored by Ben HighmoreBen Highmore
This paper takes the British high street South Asian or "Indian" restaurant as an example of diasporic popular culture. It traces the historical emergence of the Indian restaurant as a popular form, through the early nineteenth-century to the present. Alongside the emergence of a thriving diasporic restaurant culture the paper also examines the way that South Asian food culture has been represented in recipe books and food guides. Arguing that popular culture is never pure, authentic or separable from an interlacing network of power and domination, the paper situates the Indian restaurant within a dynamic neocolonial culture. However, the Indian restaurant is also an agent in this culture, and thrives due to the ingenuity, resilience and tenacity of a diasporic community.

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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

Food, Culture and Society

ISSN

1552-8014

Publisher

Berg Publishers

Issue

2

Volume

12

Page range

173-190

Pages

18.0

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  • Media and Film Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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