Much Ado Over Coffee

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Much Ado Over Coffee is written by Bhaswati Bhattacharya and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1351383159 (ISBN 10) and 9781351383158 (ISBN 13).

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.