Sport in South Asian Society

preview-18
  • Sport in South Asian Society Book Detail

  • Author : Boria Majumdar
  • Release Date : 2013-09-13
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 355
  • ISBN 13 : 1317998944
  • File Size : 69,69 MB

Sport in South Asian Society by Boria Majumdar PDF Summary

Book Description: A detailed study of sports' arrival, spread and advance in colonial and post-colonial South Asia. A selection of articles addresses critical issues of nationalism, communalism, commercialism and gender through the lens of sport. This book makes the point that the social histories of South Asian sport cannot be understood by simply looking at the history of the game in one province or region. Furthermore, it demonstrates that it would be wrong to understand sport in terms of the exigencies of the colonial state. Drawing inspiration from C.L.R. James' well-known epigram, 'What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?' the findings suggest that South Asian sport makes sense only when it is placed within the broader colonial and post-colonial context. The book demonstrates that sport not only influences politics and vice versa, but that the two are inseparable. Sport is not only political, it is politics, intrigue, culture and art. To deny this is to denigrate the position of sport in modern South Asian society. This volume was previously published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Sport in South Asian Society books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Sport in South Asian Society

Sport in South Asian Society

File Size : 22,22 MB
Total View : 7639 Views
DOWNLOAD

A detailed study of sports' arrival, spread and advance in colonial and post-colonial South Asia. A selection of articles addresses critical issues of nationali

Scoring Off the Field

Scoring Off the Field

File Size : 37,37 MB
Total View : 519 Views
DOWNLOAD

This book examines how football, as a mass spectator sport, came to represent a novel, unique cultural identity of Bengali people in terms of nation, community,

A Social History of Indian Football

A Social History of Indian Football

File Size : 81,81 MB
Total View : 9074 Views
DOWNLOAD

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

Face to Face

Face to Face

File Size : 84,84 MB
Total View : 4694 Views
DOWNLOAD

While rivalry is embedded in any sporting event or performance, soccer, the world’s most popular mass spectator sport, has been an emblem of such rivalries si

Fringe Nations in World Soccer

Fringe Nations in World Soccer

File Size : 47,47 MB
Total View : 2987 Views
DOWNLOAD

Soccer is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, gaining huge media coverage and reaching all levels of society in countries all around the world.