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The significant role of refugees in making Delhi a culinary capital

The intersectionality of diverse cultures and their equally diverse culinary habits led to the transformation of Delhi's food culture

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Sohail Hashmi | The Wire
In the last piece of ‘Capital Matters’ we had talked about the linguistic diversity of Delhi and also about the almost overnight transformation – in the aftermath of Partition – of a primarily Urdu speaking city into a city overwhelmed by those who spoke Punjabi. We also spoke about other linguistic groups and of the fact that the ever changing demographics of the city have led to the triumvirate of Awadhi, Bhojpuri and Maithili emerging, in recent years, into the linguistic group with the largest number of speakers.

The city as we knew it in 1947 has also changed fundamentally. Prior

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