INDUSTRIAL FOODS AND CULTURAL IDENTITIES IN INDIA AUGUST 17, 2017 LEAVE A COMMENT ON INDUSTRIAL FOODS AND CULTURAL IDENTITIES IN INDIA Aug 24 CPR is pleased to invite you to a talk on Industrial Foods and Cultural Identities in India Amita Baviskar Thursday, 24 August 2017, 3:30 p.m. Conference Hall, Centre for Policy Research Image Source ‘Industrial foods’ or mass-produced processed food commodities play an increasing part in diets across the world. However, in India, some of these commodities are invested with a distinctive quality: they are independent of the complex religious, regional, caste and gender codes that govern food and eating. My lecture will focus on the role of processed foods in the cultural imagination of Indians across regions, classes, and the rural-urban continuum. I argue that the consumption practices such industrial foods engender are productive sites for imagining citizenship cutting across so...