Editing Vada pav (section)

==History==
The most common theory of the vada pav's origin is that it was invented in the erstwhile mill-heartland of Central [[Mumbai]]. 
Ashok Vaidya of [[Dadar]] is often credited with starting the first vada pav stall outside [[Dadar railway station]] in 1966.<ref name="vaidya">{{cite news |last1=Mahadevan |first1=Asha |title=Nearly 50 years since its invention, the story of the vada pav hits the big screen at Jio MAMI |url=https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/nearly-50-years-since-its-invention-the-story-of-the-vada-pav-hits-the-big-screen-at-jio-mami-2487580.html |access-date=5 November 2020 |work=Firstpost |date=30 October 2015}}</ref><ref name="histoy-TOI">{{cite news |last1=Shankar |first1=Kartikeya |title=Vada Pav: History of the Popular Mumbai Snack |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/food-news/vada-pav-history-of-the-popular-mumbai-snack/articleshow/76973714.cms |access-date=5 November 2020 |work=The Times of India |date=Jul 15, 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="scott thesis"/>{{rp|34}} Some sources credit Sudhakar Mhatre who started his business around the same time.<ref name="World Vadapav Day loksatta">{{cite news |last=Ghangale |first=Swapnil |title=World Vadapav Day: जन्मापासून लंडनपर्यंत मजल मारण्यापर्यंतची वडापावची कहाणी |url=https://www.loksatta.com/do-you-know-news/world-vada-pav-day-journey-from-mumbai-popular-street-food-to-london-scsg-91-2253519/ |access-date=5 November 2020 |work=Loksatta |date=23 August 2020 |language=mr-IN}}</ref> One of the earliest kiosks selling vada pav is said to be ''Khidki Vada Pav'', located in [[Kalyan]]. It was started in the late 1960s by the Vaze family, who used to hand out vada pavs from a window (''Khidki'') of their house facing the road.<ref name="World Vadapav Day loksatta"/>

The [[carbohydrate]]-rich snack catered to the [[cotton mill]] workers of what was then known as [[Girangaon]]. This [[potato]] dumpling (''batata vada'') placed inside a [[Bread roll|''pav'']] was quick to make, cheap (~10-15 [[paisa]] in 1971<ref name="World Vadapav Day loksatta"/><ref name=NYT-best/>), and much convenient over the [[Bombay potato|batata bhaji]] and [[chapati]] combination, which couldn't be eaten in overcrowded local trains.<ref name="histoy-TOI"/><ref name="World Vadapav Day loksatta"/>

===Cultural importance===
The [[Great Bombay textile strike|closing of textile mills]] in central Mumbai led to turmoil in the 1970s. [[Shiv Sena (1966–2022)|Shiv Sena]], the homegrown party formed during this transformative time, based itself as a party with Mill workers' interests.<ref name="jamboree">{{cite journal |last1=Solomon |first1=Harris Scott |title="THE TASTE NO CHEF CAN GIVE": Processing Street Food in Mumbai |journal=Cultural Anthropology |date=May 4, 2015 |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=65–90 |doi=10.14506/ca30.1.05 |url=https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.14506/ca30.1.05 |access-date=5 November 2020 |language=en |issn=1548-1360|doi-access=free |hdl=10161/10126 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
The party chief, [[Balasaheb Thackeray]] encouraged [[Marathi people]] in the 1960s to become entrepreneurs, i.e. start food stalls in ways similar to the [[Dravidian peoples|South Indians]] setting up [[Udupi cuisine|Udupi restaurants]].<ref name="vaidya"/><ref name="histoy-TOI"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Doctor |first1=Vikram |title=An attitude to serve: Why Marathi food lost out |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/the-leisure-lounge/an-attitude-to-serve-why-marathi-food-lost-out/articleshow/3047664.cms |access-date=5 November 2020 |work=The Economic Times |date=May 17, 2008}}</ref> Shiv Sena attempted to physically and ideologically claim the streets through agitations as well as neighborhood-level events such as ''Vada pav sammelan (Vada pav jamboree)''.<ref name="scott thesis">{{cite thesis |last1=Solomon |first1=Harris Scott |title=Life-Sized: Food and the Pathologies of Plenty in Mumbai |chapter= Chapter 1. Fast Food Nationalism: Cleaning Mumbai’s streets with the vada pav |type=PhD |location=Providence, Rhode Island |date=May 2011 |institution=[[Brown University]] |doi=10.7301/Z0Q23XH9 |oclc=934517131 |chapter-url=https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:11264/ |access-date=5 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref>{{rp|28}}<ref name="jamboree"/> This theme has continued even in the recent years, e.g. the 2009 introduction of ''Shiv vada pav''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pawar |first1=Yogesh |title=Shiv Sena's vada pav strategy |url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/shiv-senas-vada-pav-strategy-396415 |access-date=5 November 2020 |work=NDTV.com |date=June 19, 2009}}</ref>