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299 Contributors Elizabeth Buettner is senior lecturer in history at the University of York (UK) and the author of Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India (Oxford University Press, 2004). She is currently completing a comparative study entitled Europe after Empire: Decolonization, Society, and Culture for Cambridge University Press. Cultural anthropologist Susan Dewey is an assistant professor in gender and women’s studies at the University of Wyoming. She has published three singleauthored books that address the complex intersections between feminized labor and the state: Making Miss India Miss World: Constructing Gender, Power and the Nation in Postliberalization India (2008), Hollow Bodies: Institutional Responses to Sex Trafficking in Armenia, Bosnia and India (2008), and Neon Wasteland: On Love, Motherhood and Sex Work in a Rust Belt Town (2011). She has coedited three volumes that address gender, nationalism, and violence, and her articles have appeared in American Ethnologist, Journal of South Asian Popular Culture, Labor: Journal of Working Class History in the Americas, and Ethnography and Education. A devoted student of Indian cuisine, Geoffrey Gardella holds a master’s degree in Asian studies from Lund University.His thesis explored the eating habits of South Indians living in Delhi. Geoffrey is currently a computer engineer living in Colorado. Akhil Gupta is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and director of the Center for India and South Asia (CISA). He is the author of Red Tape (Duke University Press, forthcoming), and The State in India after Liberalization (edited with K. Sivaramakrishnan; Routledge, 2010). He teaches a course on the anthropology of food, and has written extensively about agriculture in India. Angma D. Jhala is an assistant professor of South Asian history at Bentley University. She received her D.Phil. from Oxford (Christ Church) and an M.Div. and A.B. from Harvard University. She is the author of Courtly Indian Women in Late Imperial India (2008) and Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely 300 • Contributors India (2011). Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Indian Economic and Social History Review, South Asian History and Culture, South Asian Popular Culture, the Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Civilizations and various edited volumes. R. S. Khare, professor of anthropology at University of Virginia, has longstanding interest in studying food and culture in India, now globalizing. His relevant publications include The Hindu Hearth and Home (1976) and “Anna” [“Food”] in The Hindu World (2004). Stig Toft Madsen is a Danish South Asianist affiliated to the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS). He is the coeditor of Tryst with Democracy: Political Practice in South Asia (Anthem, 2011), which features his study of Ajit Singh, a politician in possession of a “hereditary” constituency in India. In “Being on and Being in: Exposure and Influence of Academic Experts in Contemporary Denmark,” published in Livia Holden’s anthology Cultural Expertise and Litigation (Routledge, 2011), Madsen draws on his experience as media commentator to discuss the role of the academic expert. Krishnendu Ray is currently an assistant professor of food studies in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. Prior to that, he taught for a decade at the Culinary Institute of America at Hyde Park, New York. He is the author of The Migrant’s Table: Meals and Memories in Bengali American Households (2004) and he is finishing a manuscript titled Taste, Toil and Ethnicity: Immigrant Restaurateurs and American Chefs. Arijit Sen teaches architectural design, urbanism, and cultural landscapes at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He cofounded Buildings-LandscapesCultures (www.blcprogram.org), an interdisciplinary doctoral research area shared by the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Milwaukee. His writings include articles and book chapters on South Asian immigrant cultural landscapes in Northern California, retail spaces of ethnic immigrants in New York and San Francisco, Muslim cultural landscapes in Chicago, and early twentieth-century South Asian religious spaces in the United States. Jayanta Sengupta is assistant professor of history in the University of Notre Dame. He is currently finishing his first book, on the discourses of development, democracy, and regionalism in twentieth-century Orissa, and working on another on U.S. perceptions of India from 1850 to 1950. Holly Shaffer is a doctoral student in the history of art at Yale University. The research for this article was prepared on a Fulbright Research Grant to India and a Dartmouth Reynolds Grant. She thanks those two organizations as well as R.K. Saxena and the Institute of Hotel Management (Mumbai...

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