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A Social History of Indian Football - Striving to Score (Paperback)
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A Social History of Indian Football - Striving to Score (Paperback)
Series: Sport in the Global Society
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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.
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