Everyday Culture

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Everyday culture refers to the shared practices, beliefs, values, norms, behaviours, symbols, and artifacts that characterize the daily lives of individuals within a particular society or community. Social position and cultural conditions are important determinants of the so-called banal routines, rituals, habits, and interactions that people engage in on a regular basis, shaping their identity, social interactions, and sense of belonging. What we, however, take for granted as the "life-world (s)"- the habits and routines that provide us security and stability, is a huge reservoir of practices that upon close scrutiny, yield the formative and constitutive influence of culture on this safety net of the familiar. Discover on this page the ways in which the ‘cultures’ of Delhi places and spaces, communities and neighbourhoods intersect with daily lives of people.

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Society and Culture during the Mughal age

P. N. Chopra

The National Culture of India

S. Abid Hussain

CULTURE AND EVERYDAY
LIFE

DAVID INGLIS

Begamati Zuban: Women’s Language and Culture in Nineteenth Century Delhi

G. Minault

(Re)moving Waste: Caste, Spaces, and Materials in Delhi

Aparna Agarwal

Product, equipment, uniform: Material
environment and the consumption of work in
New Delhi, India

Garima Jaju

The State, Violence and Everydayness: Some Insights from Delhi

Manoj Bandan Balsamanta
Bhim reddy

‘Mongrel City’: Cosmopolitan neighbourliness in a Delhi squatter settlement

Ayona Datta

FEMALE EMPLOYERS AND THEIR MAIDS IN NEW DELHI: ‘THIS IS OUR CULTURE’

Chudamani Basnet
A. S. Sandhya

Incongruent Waterworlds: Situating the Everyday
Practices and Power of Water in Delhi

Yaffa Truelove

GLOBALISATION OF CONSUMER CULTURE: AN EMPIRICAL SURVEY OF CONSUMERS IN DELHI

Dipika Bansal

The History and Culture of the Indian People

R.C. Majumdar

Influence of Islam on Indian Culture
2nd Edition

Tara Chand