Cricket Public Culture And Postcolonial Society In India
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Cricket Public Culture And The Making Of Postcolonial Calcutta
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Author : Souvik Naha
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-30
Cricket Public Culture And The Making Of Postcolonial Calcutta written by Souvik Naha and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-30 with History categories.
What prompts common people to kill a guard and rob an office they thought had some tickets for a Test match? Why does a scholar of medieval Bengali literature remark, 'Had life been a sport, it would be cricket'? Who do journalists vindicate by promoting cricket, the imperial game par excellence, as the lifeforce of the ordinary Indian? This book pursues these threads of the people's uncanny attachment to cricket, seeking to understand the sport's role in the making of a postcolonial society. With a focus on Calcutta, it unpacks the various connotations of international cricket that have produced a postcolonial community and public culture. Cricket, it shows, gave the people a tool to understand and form themselves as a cultural community. More than the outcomes of matches, the beliefs, attitudes and actions the sport generated had an immense bearing on emerging social relationships.
Cricket Public Culture And Postcolonial Society In India
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Author : Souvik Naha
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-31
Cricket Public Culture And Postcolonial Society In India written by Souvik Naha and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-31 with History categories.
This book expands our historical understanding of postcolonial India by examining how cricket has shaped Indian society and politics.
Cricket And National Identity In The Postcolonial Age
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Author : Stephen Wagg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-10-09
Cricket And National Identity In The Postcolonial Age written by Stephen Wagg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-09 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Bringing together leading international writers on cricket and society, this important new book places cricket in the postcolonial life of the major Test-playing countries. Exploring the culture, politics, governance and economics of cricket in the twenty-first century, this book dispels the age-old idea of a gentle game played on England's village greens. This is an original political and historical study of the game's development in a range of countries and covers: * cricket in the new Commonwealth: Sri Lanka, Pakistan, the Caribbean and India * the cricket cultures of Australia, New Zealand and post-apartheid South Africa * cricket in England since the 1950s. This new book is ideal for students of sport, politics, history and postcolonialism as it provides stimulating and comprehensive discussions of the major issues including race, migration, gobalization, neoliberal economics, the media, religion and sectarianism.
From The Colonial To The Carnival
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Author : Dr. Siddhartha R., Dr. Rani P. L.
language : en
Publisher: Notion Press
Release Date : 2022-02-14
From The Colonial To The Carnival written by Dr. Siddhartha R., Dr. Rani P. L. and has been published by Notion Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-14 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Research in colonial studies has traditionally revolved around the historical, political and economic aspects of the colonial regime. The case is no different with the British Empire in India. The Empire was, however, built less by military force and more through cultural reinforcement. To this end, the British engaged many tools – religion, language and sport. Among the three Cs of Victorian England that defined civilisation, Cricket stood on par with Christianity and the Classics. Beyond being a sport, cricket was the Englishman’s representation of his ‘English-ness’ in the colonies and a tool used for colonisation – a scantily researched area. This book traces, through the colonial postulates of Edward Said and Homi K. Bhabha, the colonial path cricket took to its growth in the colony. The game moved from the ‘exclusivity’ of the English to the ‘mimicry’ of the natives as a part of the informal modes of rule employed in a colonial framework. Once formal modes were employed in the Empire, phases of ‘cultural reinforcement’ by the colonists followed by ‘patronage’ by the natives took over the spread of the game. Historical narratives are filled with examples supporting each phase in the sport. The very same tool that was used to establish the native’s ‘effeminacy’ was used, finally, to invert the hegemony. The book argues how decolonisation, in India’s case, did not occur through ‘rejection’ of the colonial culture, but, paradoxically, through ‘adaptation’ and ‘assimilation’ in clear colonial terms. This discussion achieves recency and relevance through its exposition of the telling decolonising moves in cricket to ‘subvert authority’ through the IPL. Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the carnival helps view the shift of cricket from the colonial to the carnival mode.
Athletic Activism
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Author : Jeffrey Montez de Oca
language : en
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Release Date : 2023-08-08
Athletic Activism written by Jeffrey Montez de Oca and has been published by Emerald Group Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-08 with Social Science categories.
Rooted in a global, transnational perspective, Athletic Activism: Global Perspectives on Social Transformation demonstrates how athletic activism can not only impact global discourse about inequity across various social location, but foster institutional change that advances social justice.
Sport Culture And Nation
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Author : Kausik Bandyopadhyay
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Release Date : 2015-10-26
Sport Culture And Nation written by Kausik Bandyopadhyay and has been published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-26 with History categories.
An in-depth analysis of the intricate relationships among sport, culture, politics, identity and regional cooperation in South Asia In South Asia, sport has long been a site—albeit ignored by social scientists—which articulates the complexities and diversities of the everyday life of the nations. This book highlights the importance of sport in colonial and postcolonial times in India and South Asia as an essential cultural experience, a political tool, a social instrument and a commercial force. It reveals how sport has become politically, socially, culturally and emotionally significant, particularly, football in India and cricket in South Asia. Sport, Culture and Nation would be useful to historians, political scientists, sociologists and to scholars of South Asian studies as well as culture and leisure studies.
Cricket Country
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Author : Prashant Kidambi
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-04-01
Cricket Country written by Prashant Kidambi and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-01 with History categories.
Cricket is an Indian game accidentally invented by the English, it has famously been said. Today, the Indian cricket team is a powerful national symbol, a unifying force in a country riven by conflicts. But India was represented by a cricket team long before it became an independent nation. Drawing on an unparalleled range of original archival sources, Cricket Country is the story of the first All India cricket tour of Great Britain and Ireland. It is also the extraordinary tale of how the idea of India took shape on the cricket field in the high noon of empire. Conceived by an unlikely coalition of colonial and local elites, it took twelve years and three failed attempts before an Indian cricket team made its debut on the playing fields of imperial Britain. This historic tour, which took place against the backdrop of revolutionary politics in the Edwardian era, featured an improbable cast of characters. The teams young captain was the newly enthroned ruler of a powerful Sikh state. The other cricketers were chosen on the basis of their religious identity. Remarkably, for the day, two of the players were Dalits. Over the course of the blazing Coronation summer of 1911, these Indians participated in a collective enterprise that epitomizes the way in which sport and above all cricket helped fashion the imagined communities of both empire and nation.
Liberation Cricket
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Author : Hilary Beckles
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1995
Liberation Cricket written by Hilary Beckles and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Cricket categories.
Of the global community of cricketers, the West Indians are, arguably, the most well-known and feared. This book shows how this tradition of cricketing excellence and leadership emerged, and how it contributed to the rise of West Indian nationalism and independence.
The Imperial Game
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Author : Brian Stoddart
language : en
Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1998-09-15
The Imperial Game written by Brian Stoddart and has been published by Manchester : Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-15 with Fiction categories.
An exploration of the history of cricket in the British Empire, this text attempts to explain why the sport was so successful, even in countries such as India, Pakistan and the West Indies, where the Anglo-Saxon element remained in a small minority.
Cricket In Colonial India 1780 1947
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Author : Boria Majumdar
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-18
Cricket In Colonial India 1780 1947 written by Boria Majumdar and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This is an exacting social history of Indian cricket between 1780 and 1947. It considers cricket as a derivative sport, creatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs, fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations. Majumdar argues that cricket was a means to cross class barriers and had a healthy following even outside the aristocracy and upper middle classes well over a century ago. Indeed, in some ways, the democratization of the sport anticipated the democratization of the Indian polity itself. Boria Majumdar reveals the appropriation, assimilation and subversion of cricketing ideals in colonial and post-colonial India for nationalist ends. He exposes a sport rooted in the contingencies of the colonial and post-colonial context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. Cricket, to put it simply, is much more than a ‘game’ for Indians. This study describes how the genealogy of their intense engagement with cricket stretches back over a century. It is concerned not only with the game but also with the end of cricket as a mere sport, with Indian cricket’s commercial revolution in the 1930s, with ideals and idealism and their relative unimportance, with the decline of morality for reasons of realpolitik, and with the denunciation, once and for all, of the view that sport and politics do not mix. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport