Jayeeta Sharma
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jayeeta Sharma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jayeeta |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharma |
| SIGNATURE | SHARMA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction: Forgotten Food Histories of South Asia
Feeding the City, Pandemic and Beyond
It is a simple truth that the COVID-19 pandemic has been hugely disruptive to food systems. It is essential to recognize, however, that certain social groups are disproportionately experiencing heightened levels of food insecurity, and societal and livelihood challenges.1 Other groups have faced relatively minor inconveniences, primarily from disrupted food supply chains. In Toronto, Canada, with a population of approximately 3 million, dispariti…
Food cries, historical city sounds, and the twentieth century silencing of street vendors
This article explores historical street cries, the sounds, calls, and music of peddlers, hawkers, and vendors who sold food, provisions and services, and their changes within global soundscapes and urban communities. It considers food cries as an acoustic, socio-economic, and cultural phenomenon associated for centuries with street selling as a key constituent of culinary provisioning and subaltern livelihoods. It examines how and why from the mi…
Photography and Work
In this article, we ask what makes photographs different from other kinds of historical source material. What can photographic images do that other documents cannot? And what traps lie in wait for the historian using the visual record? Our more fundamental concern, however, is with the capacity of photography to capture labor and capital. Photographs are of the concrete and specific; but capital abstracts, rendering equivalent that which was once…
The Ethnic Restaurateur
Krishnendu Ray’s latest book is a tour de force that elegantly unites the ethnographic and sociological imaginations demonstrated in The Migrant’s Table (Temple, 2004) and Curried Cultures (Oxford
A culinary hub in the global city: Diasporic Asian foodscapes across Scarborough, Canada
This article examines the role of late twentieth-century transnational migrants to Canada in transforming Scarborough into a culinary hub with global and Asian resonances—a place where dense affective, sensory, social, cultural, and economic networks of foodways overlap and combine to create place-specific diasporic sensescapes. The primary research questions are: How does such an Asian culinary hub emerge and function in the transnational and di…
Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World by Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger
The East India Company and the Natural World
Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture, written by Gaiutra Bahadur
Food and Empire
Between 1926 and 1933, the Empire Marketing Board used a myriad of advertisements, posters, exhibits, and films to promote the empire's food products to British homes. The publicity campaigns were intended to show that tea from India or fruit from Australia was not foreign, but also British. Whether the Board was successful in its bid to promote intra-imperial food consumption, indeed, whether those efforts were needed in the first place, was not…
Empire’s Garden
This book has taken many years to write and witnessed major changes and upheavals in my personal and professional lives.At its end, my thoughts
Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India
Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India
Empire’s Garden: Assam and the Making of India
Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920 , by Thomas R. Metcalf
Lazy' Natives, Coolie Labour, and the Assam Tea Industry
This paper considers the creation of a 'coolie' work-force for the Assam tea industry and the local dimensions of tea plantation enterprise. While the industry has flourished through its use of migrant labour and export markets for tea, it has retained important connections with the locality. The Assam tea industry was a predominantly colonial enterprise manned by white British planters. It allowed participation, albeit in subordinate and depende…
British science, Chinese skill and Assam tea: Making empire's garden
This article traces the workings of science, ideology and economy which integrated Assam into imperial and global commodity networks as a tea ‘garden’. It discusses how imperial botanists and their colonial subordinates conceived of botanic gardens as a conduit for transplanting plants such as tea into British-ruled territories. While this clearly served British economic interests, they stressed its vital scientific and strategic implications. Th…
Lazy' Natives, Coolie Labour, and the Assam Tea Industry
This paper considers the creation of a 'coolie' work-force for the Assam tea industry and the local dimensions of tea plantation enterprise. While the industry has flourished through its use of migrant labour and export markets for tea, it has retained important connections with the locality. The Assam tea industry was a predominantly colonial enterprise manned by white British planters. It allowed participation, albeit in subordinate and depende…
Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India
British science, Chinese skill and Assam tea: Making empire's garden
This article traces the workings of science, ideology and economy which integrated Assam into imperial and global commodity networks as a tea ‘garden’. It discusses how imperial botanists and their colonial subordinates conceived of botanic gardens as a conduit for transplanting plants such as tea into British-ruled territories. While this clearly served British economic interests, they stressed its vital scientific and strategic implications. Th…
A culinary hub in the global city: Diasporic Asian foodscapes across Scarborough, Canada
This article examines the role of late twentieth-century transnational migrants to Canada in transforming Scarborough into a culinary hub with global and Asian resonances—a place where dense affective, sensory, social, cultural, and economic networks of foodways overlap and combine to create place-specific diasporic sensescapes. The primary research questions are: How does such an Asian culinary hub emerge and function in the transnational and di…
Food cries, historical city sounds, and the twentieth century silencing of street vendors
This article explores historical street cries, the sounds, calls, and music of peddlers, hawkers, and vendors who sold food, provisions and services, and their changes within global soundscapes and urban communities. It considers food cries as an acoustic, socio-economic, and cultural phenomenon associated for centuries with street selling as a key constituent of culinary provisioning and subaltern livelihoods. It examines how and why from the mi…
The East India Company and the Natural World
Photography and Work
In this article, we ask what makes photographs different from other kinds of historical source material. What can photographic images do that other documents cannot? And what traps lie in wait for the historian using the visual record? Our more fundamental concern, however, is with the capacity of photography to capture labor and capital. Photographs are of the concrete and specific; but capital abstracts, rendering equivalent that which was once…
Introduction: Forgotten Food Histories of South Asia
British science, Chinese skill and Assam tea: Making empire's garden
This article traces the workings of science, ideology and economy which integrated Assam into imperial and global commodity networks as a tea ‘garden’. It discusses how imperial botanists and their colonial subordinates conceived of botanic gardens as a conduit for transplanting plants such as tea into British-ruled territories. While this clearly served British economic interests, they stressed its vital scientific and strategic implications. Th…
Lazy' Natives, Coolie Labour, and the Assam Tea Industry
This paper considers the creation of a 'coolie' work-force for the Assam tea industry and the local dimensions of tea plantation enterprise. While the industry has flourished through its use of migrant labour and export markets for tea, it has retained important connections with the locality. The Assam tea industry was a predominantly colonial enterprise manned by white British planters. It allowed participation, albeit in subordinate and depende…
Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920 , by Thomas R. Metcalf
Empire’s Garden
This book has taken many years to write and witnessed major changes and upheavals in my personal and professional lives.At its end, my thoughts
Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India
Empire's Garden: Assam and the Making of India
Empire’s Garden: Assam and the Making of India
Food and Empire
Between 1926 and 1933, the Empire Marketing Board used a myriad of advertisements, posters, exhibits, and films to promote the empire's food products to British homes. The publicity campaigns were intended to show that tea from India or fruit from Australia was not foreign, but also British. Whether the Board was successful in its bid to promote intra-imperial food consumption, indeed, whether those efforts were needed in the first place, was not…
The East India Company and the Natural World
Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture, written by Gaiutra Bahadur
Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World by Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger
The Ethnic Restaurateur
Krishnendu Ray’s latest book is a tour de force that elegantly unites the ethnographic and sociological imaginations demonstrated in The Migrant’s Table (Temple, 2004) and Curried Cultures (Oxford
A culinary hub in the global city: Diasporic Asian foodscapes across Scarborough, Canada
This article examines the role of late twentieth-century transnational migrants to Canada in transforming Scarborough into a culinary hub with global and Asian resonances—a place where dense affective, sensory, social, cultural, and economic networks of foodways overlap and combine to create place-specific diasporic sensescapes. The primary research questions are: How does such an Asian culinary hub emerge and function in the transnational and di…
Photography and Work
In this article, we ask what makes photographs different from other kinds of historical source material. What can photographic images do that other documents cannot? And what traps lie in wait for the historian using the visual record? Our more fundamental concern, however, is with the capacity of photography to capture labor and capital. Photographs are of the concrete and specific; but capital abstracts, rendering equivalent that which was once…
Feeding the City, Pandemic and Beyond
It is a simple truth that the COVID-19 pandemic has been hugely disruptive to food systems. It is essential to recognize, however, that certain social groups are disproportionately experiencing heightened levels of food insecurity, and societal and livelihood challenges.1 Other groups have faced relatively minor inconveniences, primarily from disrupted food supply chains. In Toronto, Canada, with a population of approximately 3 million, dispariti…
Food cries, historical city sounds, and the twentieth century silencing of street vendors
This article explores historical street cries, the sounds, calls, and music of peddlers, hawkers, and vendors who sold food, provisions and services, and their changes within global soundscapes and urban communities. It considers food cries as an acoustic, socio-economic, and cultural phenomenon associated for centuries with street selling as a key constituent of culinary provisioning and subaltern livelihoods. It examines how and why from the mi…
Introduction: Forgotten Food Histories of South Asia
History (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Empire (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (4 works)