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1. Why Minorities Play or Don't Play Soccer

   A Global Exploration

   Edited by Kausik Bandyopadhyay

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Soccer, the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, has always remained a marker of identities of various sorts. Behind the façade of its obvious entertainment aspect, it has proved to be a perpetuating reflector of nationalism, ethnicity, community or communal identity, and cultural...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
2. Scoring Off the Field

   Football Culture in Bengal, 1911–80

   By Kausik Bandyopadhyay

   Series: South Asian History and Culture

   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...

   Published October 18th 2011 by Routledge India
3. Fringe Nations in World Soccer

   Edited by Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Sabyasachi Mallick

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   Soccer is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world, gaining huge media coverage and reaching all levels of society in countries all around the world. More than just entertainment, soccer has proved to be a reflection of national, cultural, community and ethnic identity as well as an...

   Published February 19th 2009 by Routledge
4. A Social History of Indian Football

   Striving to Score

   By Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Boria Majumdar

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   A Social History of Indian Football covers the period 1850-2004. It considers soccer as a derivative sport, creatively and imaginatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs - designed to fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations. The book is concerned with the...

   Published April 18th 2006 by Routledge