Delicious Delhi
Nostalgia, consumption and the old city
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18985484 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Gandhi (0000-0002-0281-3748, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, D-37073, Göttingen, Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 345-361 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Identities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1070-289X • E-ISSN: 1547-3384 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1070289x.2015.1034130 |
| OpenAlex | W2054901848 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article examines how Old Delhi is represented and recreated in contemporary India. Delhi’s old city was once the locus of pre-colonial Mughal sovereignty. It is now often encountered via nationalist spectacles, mass-media images and consumption practices. Paralleling neo-liberalism’s onset in the 1990s, its street food, bazaar spaces and historical monuments have been avidly appropriated by reigning institutions and classes. Old Delhi suggests that which the new India has left behind; yet this displacement also elicits longing for what has been lost.This medieval remnant can therefore be considered the site of nostalgia consumed by a globalised middle class. This article presents an ethnography of Old Delhi’s invocation in New Delhi’s cultural landscape, including malls, newspapers, heritage sites, hotels, and food courts. In triangulating among the realms of nationalist nostalgia, middle-class identity and mediated consumption, it emphasises how India’s neoliberal emergence is bound up with the co-opting of the past
Ancient history · Archaeology · Bazaar · Colonialism · Ethnography · Ethnology · Geography · Media studies · Middle class · Nationalism · New delhi · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sovereignty · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · South Asian Cinema and Culture
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Beyond Belief
Between Two Empires
Spaces of Colonialism
Cultural Intimacy
Discourses of the Vanishing
Nation's Two Bodies
The Politics of Forgetting
Imagined communities
The Saffron Wave
Shahjahanabad/Old Delhi
The Making of Colonial Lucknow, 1856-1877
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |