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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