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Britto Research Grant 2021-22, Book Publication Project on Indigenous Food Culture & Food Politics in Bangladesh, 2021-2022

I got selected for Britto Research Grant 2021-22, which will focus on a publication grounded on year-long process-based activities towards the world’s prestigious Docuemnta15 at Kassel, Germany, from June 18 to September 25, 2022. In this book’s publication project, I am studying to develop an anthropological study on seven indigenous

communities (Mandi, Hajong, Oraon, Santal Manipuri, Rakhaine, Mru, Tripura) in Bangladesh to understand their food culture, language, religion, and lifestyle. Britto Arts Trust (BAT) has been working with these communities since 2012. Based on the BAT archives and my present re-visit to these communities’ villages, I am focusing on a

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comparative analysis of how much their livelihoods have changed since the industrially processed foods, hybrid seeds, and cultivation system got circulated. The research methodology I follow will maintain the decolonial and understanding of the post-colonial readings related to comprehending the present phenomenon of developing modern/ digital Bangladesh. Throughout this anthropological field works, I stay with the villagers, traveling through the remote areas, creating pictorial narrations of the journeys, recording oral histories, making an archive of their food habits, recipes, and ingredients, observing their local marketplace, religion, NGO activities, and cultural performances. Besides, I have documented the political-business aggression of natural resources (river dredging, kaolin clay mining, stone, and river sand mining) around these lands. On the other hand, I am also going through the grossly rising hybrid urban food culture, the visual culture of the food advertisements by the local and international food industries. These references of mass destruction of the environment and the degradation of biodiversity in the name of Developing Nation leads me to ask the question, what is it about food that makes us find changes so difficult to contemplate? And we, as we move into the Anthropocene, developing an ability to consider the most radical shift of all - a shift in the very basis of our diet? Moreover, This book will eventually lead to in-depth research on post Anthropocene era food politics, commodification, and its relationship to the present environmental crisis.

Britto Research Grant 2021-22, Book Publication Project on Indigenous Food Culture & Food Politics in Bangladesh, 2021-2022