1st Edition
A Social History of Indian Football Striving to Score
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 appropriation, assimilation and subversion of sporting ideals in colonial and post-colonial India for... Read more
1. Historical Background 2. The Father of Indian Football 3. Soccer's Appropriation and the Formation of the IFA 4. Nineteen Eleven 5. Racialism, Nationalism and Bengal Football 6. Communalism in Indian Football 7. Years of Turmoil 1931-1939 8. Ghati-Bangal in Indian Football 9. Growth of Rival Centres of Footballing Excellence 10. Declining Trends in Indian Soccer 11. Women's Football in India 12. Turn Towards Commercialism and Professionalism
Biography
Bandyopadhyay, Kausik; Majumdar, Boria
In sum this is an interesting book if you want to know about Indian Soccer ... Paul Dimeo University of Stirling
