Kausik Bandyopadhyay Editor & Author

Kausik Bandyopadhyay, an Academic Editor of Soccer and Society, teaches History at West Bengal State University, Barasat, India. A former Fellow at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, Dr. Bandyopadhyay is the author of Playing Off the Field: Explorations in the History of Sport (Kolkata: Towards Freedom, 2007) and Playing for Freedom: A Historic Sports Victory (New Delhi: Standard Publishers, 2008); co-author of A Social History of Indian Football: Striving to Score (London: Routledge, 2006); and co-editor of Fringe Nations in World Soccer (London: Routledge, 2008).