Much ADO Over Coffee: Indian Coffee House Then and Now

By Bhaswati Bhattacharya

Book Overview

Based on oral history, fiction, fascinating intellectual gossip, and records of the Coffee Board of India, this study is a multi-sited ethnography of the Indian Coffee House, possibly the world's first coffee house chain. It offers a critical analysis of adda (informal meetings) of the educated middle class in Allahabad, Calcutta and Delhi. The coffee house became the new socio-intellectual nerve centre, replacing the neigbourhood tea shops, and creating an entirely different social space. This book will have line drawings and cartoons as well as archival photographs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032652772
• ISBN13: 9781032652771
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 432 Pages