Cricket in Colonial India 1780 - 1947

ISBN-13: 9780415400145 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 224 str.

Boria Majumdar

Opis

Considers cricket as a derivative sport, creatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs, fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations. This book reveals the appropriation, assimilation and subversion of cricketing ideals in

Spis treści

1. Maharajas and Cricket: Self, State, Province and Nation 2. Cricket in India: Representative playing fields to a restrictive preserve 3. On the road to meritocracy 3. National, Communal and the Commercial 4. Cricket in Colonial Bengal: 1880-1947- A lost history of nationalism 5. Cricket in late colonial Bengal: 1930-47- A story of decline 6. Cricket in colonial Bombay: 1850-1930 7. Communalism to Commercialism: The Bombay Pentangular (1892-1946) 8. Looking back 9.Selected Memories 10. Battles off the Pitch 11. Deified Citizens: Torchbearers of a billion 12.Power 13. Towards a middle class dream: The commercial revolution 14. Leading the world

O autorze

Boria Majumdar, a Rhodes scholar, is research fellow at La Trobe University in Melbourne. He is Executive Editor of the Routledge journals Sport in Society and Soccer and Society and Joint General Editor of the Routledge Series, Sport in the Global Society. He is also visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago and a fellow of the International Olympic Museum at Lausanne, Switzerland. A well-known media figure on television, he has also written extensively for the Times of India, Outlook, Wisden and Anandabazar Patrika.