Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta (Hardcover)

What prompts common people to kill a guard and rob an office they thought had some tickets for a Test match? Why does a scholar of medieval Bengali literature remark, 'Had life been a sport, it would be cricket'? Who do journalists vindicate by promoting cricket, the imperial game par excellence, as the lifeforce of the ordinary Indian? This book pursues these threads of the people's uncanny attachment to cricket, seeking to understand the sport's role in the making of a postcolonial society. With a focus on Calcutta, it unpacks the various connotations of international cricket that have produced a postcolonial community and public culture. Cricket, it shows, gave the people a tool to understand and form themselves as a cultural community. More than the outcomes of matches, the beliefs, attitudes and actions the sport generated had an immense bearing on emerging social relationships.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2023
Authors:	Souvik Naha
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-49458-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Ball games > Cricket Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	1-108-49458-7
Barcode:	9781108494588

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