Publisher's Synopsis
based on oral history, fiction, interesting intellectual gossip, and records of the coffee Board of India, much ADO over coffee: Indian coffee house then and now is a many-sited description of the Indian coffee house, possibly the worlds first coffee house chain.The book offers interestingly written accounts of the add as or informal meetings, of the educated middle class in the cities of Calcutta, Allahabad and Delhi. Add as initially flourished in the neighbourhood tea shops, and then switched to the newly created coffee houses.some workers, now forgotten but who were once immensely popular with the regular visitors of the coffee houses, live on again on these pages bringing back old memories. In this context one should perhaps mention that in an interesting departure, some footnotes in this book are used to carry video links of luminaries visiting these coffee houses.Change has set in here too as everywhere else..Read more.
