মুঘল যুগে খাদ্য সংস্কৃতি বিষয়ে গবেষণা

Divya Narayanan, আমাদের গুরুকন্যা গীতা ধরমপালের অধীনে হাইডেলবার্গ বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় থেকে Cultures of Food and Gastronomy in Mughal and post-Mughal India বিষয়ে অসাধারণ এই গবেষণাটি করেছেন। এক্কেবারে নতুন ভাবনা। সেটি আপনাদের সঙ্গে ভাগ করে নিতে পেরে ভাল লাগছে।
ওনার মুখবন্ধের প্রথম স্তবকটি দেওয়া গেল। মন্তব্যে গোটা গবেষণাটির সূত্র দিলাম

“Food is a many-splendored thing, central to biological and social life”, writes Carole Counihan in her book, The Anthropology of Food and Body. Historical and anthropological studies of ‘foodways’ provide a crucial window to the intricacies of social interactions, political articulations, cultural consciousness, and mental as well as emotional structures. Yet, food culture remains a grossly understudied theme in Indian history; this is a lacuna I hope to address in this dissertation. My intention is to examine the dynamics of food cultures and ideas of connoisseurship in urban Mughal and post-Mughal India, i.e. from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. These spatial and temporal margins are meant to be broad boundary markers and do not serve as rigid fences of barbed wire. The geographical focus of this dissertation refers to the lands that came under Mughal hegemony during this period, which naturally included a significant portion of the Indian subcontinent (see map I). But for a greater part of its history, Mughal influence was largely concentrated in the north, and among certain population groups.