Overview:A Social History of Indian Football: Striving to Score - Sport in the Global Society - 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.
This book is on page /88f0ff300130a9332bf7ee8997e69000/book/1603725646-9780415348355. It was written by the following authors: Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Boria Majumdar. Book A Social History of Indian Football: Striving to Score - Sport in the Global Society, which can be read online, published by the company: Taylor & Francis Ltd. Other books on similar topics can be found in sections: Sports Books, History. The book was published on 2006-04-19 00:00:00. It has 210 pages and is published in Hardback format and weight 567 g. File for download A Social History of Indian Football: Striving to Score - Sport in the Global Society has PDF format and is called a-social-history-of-indian-football-striving-to-score-sport-in-the-global-society.pdf. Other books you can download below. Our nottedeiricercatoriaq.it site is not responsible for the content of PDF files.
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