Dadi’s dal: deciphering India’s ‘national dish’?

Woods, Philip (2017) Dadi’s dal: deciphering India’s ‘national dish’? [Online resource]

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Drawing on his PhD fieldwork, Ken Kuroda proposes that dal – which comes in diverse guises yet is ubiquitous throughout the country – is the best contender for India’s national dish. He writes that observing how someone prepares and consumes their dal, and what they add or subtract from this basic unit offers an important insight on the structures of society.

Item Type	Online resource
Copyright holders	© 2017 The Author(s)
Departments	LSE
Date Deposited	27 Apr 2017 13:01
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/74585