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===Cultural importance=== The [[Great Bombay textile strike|closing of textile mills]] in central Mumbai led to turmoil in the 1970s. [[Shiv Sena (1966β2022)|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=65β90 |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 Mumbaiβs 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>
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