Sport in South Asian Society: Past and Present is concerned with a
detailed study of sports' arrival, spread and advance in colonial
and post-colonial South Asia. An array of articles which address
critical issues of nationalism, communalism, commercialism and
gender through the lens of sport are available under one rubric.
The book makes the point that one cannot claim to understand social
histories of South Asian sport by simply looking at the history of
the game in one province or region. Further, it demonstrates that
it would be faulty 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 book suggests that South Asian sport makes sense only
when it is placed within the broader colonial and post colonial
context. It 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. in the Global Society
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