INDIA

Question 1

Lecture - Book we should all read

Answer 1

benedict Anderson’s “Imagined Communities”

Question 2

Lecture - Nationhood is an act of imagination and food -

Answer 2

materializes this

Question 3

Lecture - traditional food suggests -

Answer 3

• nationhood is shared tradition (padahal …)

Question 4

Lecture - State power doesn’t come in on tradition, rather it -

Answer 4

obliterates the past

Question 5

Lecture - Nationhood not imagined but -

Answer 5

materialized ritually

Question 6

Lecture - Food renders Indians

Answer 6

• knowable

Question 7

Lecture - when colonization was still not a scourge, whites intermarried, and foods began to blend too. So one way locals rebelled against this was -

Answer 7

• by eating local foods, refusing new things, creating “us/them”

Question 8

Lecture - After the Indian rebellion, Brits made themselves distinct via

Answer 8

boundary production

Question 9

Lecture - Brits saw famine foods as evidence of -

Answer 9

lack of civilization

Question 10

Lecture - the 2nd famine estimated dead -

Answer 10

19-29 million

Question 11

Lecture - one of course mantras =

Answer 11

self-mastery is the right to be master of other

Question 12

Lecture - guns, ships, military, clothing, food, toilet habits -

Answer 12

all were “weapons”

Question 13

Lecture - “moral economy” inventor -

Answer 13

Thompson

Question 14

Lecture - 2nd definition of “moral economy”

Answer 14

all aspects of morality in economics across history

Question 15

Lecture - type of colonialism that makes people fat or malnourished -

Answer 15

dietary colonialism