Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta

Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 9781009276252
ISBN-13 : 1009276255
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Book Synopsis Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta by : Souvik Naha

Download or read book Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta written by Souvik Naha and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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