Tarana Husain Khan interviews Birendra Sandhu about growing heritage rice varieties in Rampur, India
Birendra Sandhu is a farm owner and agriculturist based in rural Rampur who has been growing various grains in his farms. As part of this project on forgotten foods, Birendra grew some heritage rice varieties like Hansraj and Tilak Chandan that had become extinct in the region. In this interview he talks about the difficulties he faced while finding the seeds and growing the rice. This interview is part of the documentary Dastarkhwan-e Rampur (A Feast in Rampur) tracing the cultural history of north India’s Rampur town through its food and culinary heritage.
Also see: Tarana Husain Khan, Duncan Cameron and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, ‘Resurrecting Tilak Chandan and Beyond: The Fall and Future Rice of Local Rice Varieties in North India’, Plants People Planet!, forthcoming.
Credits
This video is produced as part of the project: Forgotten Food: Culinary Memory, Local Heritage and Lost Agricultural Varieties in India, 2019-23
Led by Professor Siobhan Lambert-Hurley (University of Sheffield)
in collaboration with
Dr Saumya Gupta (Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi)
Professor Duncan Cameron (University of Manchester)
Professor Claire Chambers (University of York)
The project was funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund through the Arts & Humanities Research Council in the United Kingdom.
The Research
This video is produced as part of the project: Forgotten Food: Culinary Memory, Local Heritage and Lost Agricultural Varieties in India, 2019-23
Led by Professor Siobhan Lambert-Hurley (University of Sheffield)
in collaboration with
Dr Saumya Gupta (Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi)
Professor Duncan Cameron (University of Manchester)
Professor Claire Chambers (University of York)
The project was funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund through the Arts & Humanities Research Council in the United Kingdom.