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Scoring Off the Field - Football Culture in Bengal, 1911-80 (Paperback)
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Scoring Off the Field - Football Culture in Bengal, 1911-80 (Paperback)
Series: South Asian History and Culture
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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, region/locality and club, contributing
to the continuity of everyday socio-cultural life. It explains how
football became a viable popular social force with a rare emotional
spontaneity and peculiar self-expressive fan culture against the
background of anti-imperial nationalist movement and postcolonial
political tension and social transformation. In the process, it
investigates certain key questions and problems in the social
history of football in Bengal, which have hitherto been ignored in
the existing works on the subject. The author offers some original
arguments in treating football as a cultural phenomenon, setting it
squarely in the context of Bengali politics and society. It
strengthens the premise that social history of South Asian sport
can be meaningfully understood only by looking beyond the sports
field. The study, using sport as a lens, has tried to consider some
relevant themes of social history, and brings forth important
issues of political and cultural history of 20th-century Bengal.
Simultaneously, it highlights the transformed role of football as
an instrument of reaction, resistance and subversion. It indicates
that the football field of Bengal proves to be a mirror image of
what society experiences in its cultural and political field,
through a series of historical projections of identity, difference
and culture.
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