A Social History of Indian Football
Striving to Score
Boria Majumdar author Kausik Bandyopadhyay author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:20th Jun '16
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A Social History of Indian Football covers the period 1850-2004. It considers soccer as a derivative sport, creatively and imaginatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs - designed to fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations. The book is concerned with the appropriation, assimilation and subversion of sporting ideals in colonial and post-colonial India for nationalist needs.
The book assesses the role of soccer in colonial Indian life, to delineate the inter-relationship between those who patronised, promoted, played and viewed the game, to analyse the impact of the colonial context on the games evolution and development and shed light on the diverse nature of trysts with the sport across the country. Throughout this book, soccer is the lens that illuminates India's colonial and post-colonial encounter.
This volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal Soccer and Society.
In sum this is an interesting book if you want to know about Indian Soccer ...Paul Dimeo University of Stirling
ISBN: 9781138982222
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 358g
210 pages