"This splendid book uses ideas about food, fasting and famine to explore the Indian colonial sensorium in a truly original manner. It should be of great interest to historians of colonialism, of cuisine and of the affective practices through which the colony--and the post-colony--produce their effects. It is beautifully and forcefully written, thus itself a sensory bonus for the reader."--Arjun Appadurai, New York University

Acknoledgments
Introduction
1. Disgust: Food, Filth, and Anglo-Indian Flesh in 1857
2. Abstinence: Manifestos on Meat and Masculinity
3. Dearth: Figures of Famine
Appetite: Spices Redux
Remains: A Coda
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Parama Roy is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India and an editor of States of Trauma: Gender and Violence in South Asia.