Food Politics in India: Identity, Power, Ethics, and Resistance on a Plate, brings together a range of critical perspectives that trace the material and symbolic roles of food in shaping India’s political, social, and cultural life. From Gandhi’s evolving dietary ethics to contemporary debates on food security, factory farming, regional identity, and ecological responsibility, the essays collected here reveal the multi-layered and often fraught politics of food in India.

Contents

Foreword
Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1: Violence of the Diet: Mapping the Journey of Gandhi’s Food Politics and Its Contemporary Implications
                Amarendra Pandey

Chapter 2: Radical Ecological Democracy: Towards a Healthier Food Politics
                Tony Bharath Kenneth Mathew

Chapter 3: Applying Ethics to Food: Some Complexities in India
                Avani Sabade

Chapter 4: Food for Thought: Ethics, Emancipation and Exploitation of Food Culture
                Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Chapter 5: Religious Food Prohibitions: Exploring Historical, Social, and Cultural Perspectives
                Nishant A. Irudayadason

Chapter 6: Anna Saharaj: Food, Freedom and Sharing
                Ananta Kumar Giri

Chapter 7: Political Economy of Vada-Pav
                V. Sebastian

Chapter 8: Food as an Identity Marker: Are We Really Identified by What We Eat?
                Lijo George

Chapter 9: Exploring Issues in Food Through Ricoeur’s Notions of Memory and Identity
                Joel D’Souza, SJ

Chapter 10: Global Hunger Index and Food Security in the Context of COVID-19 Evidence from Rural India
                  Alwyn D’Souza, Sneha Mathew, & Praveen Agnello D’Souza

Chapter 11: The ‘Fishy’ Side of Goa: Politicising Fishing and Anti-Fishing in River Sal
                  Glenis M. Mendonça & Sebastião A. Rodrigues

Contributors

Dr Clement J Santhanam is a lecturer of philosophy at Jnana Deepa (Pontifical Athenaeum), Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Pune, India. He has his PhD from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He teaches epistemology, hermeneutics, the history of Ancient and Modern philosophy, and logic. He is a visiting faculty at Don Bosco University, Guwahati, Assam and Symbiosis College of Liberal Arts, Pune. His areas of specialisation are social, political, moral and religious epistemology. He has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals.