Souvik Naha (University of Glasgow)

Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta

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Produktbeschreibung

The book argues that the beliefs and attitudes generated by cricket through media and other social practices have had an immense bearing on the making of a postcolonial society. It will help scholars and students of history understand the making of postcolonial Indian society and culture from a new perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781108494588
• ISBN-10: 1108494587
• Artikelnr.: 62844185

Autorenporträt

Souvik Naha is senior lecturer in imperial and post-colonial history at the University of Glasgow. Prior to joining Glasgow, he held the Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie Actions fellowship at Durham University. He has published extensively in colonial and postcolonial history and has co-edited several journal special issues including FIFA World Cup and Beyond: Sport, Culture, Media and Governance (2017), Global and Transnational Sport: Ambiguous Borders, Connected Domains (2017), Ethical Concerns in Sport Governance (2018), Moments, Metaphors, Memories: Defining Events in the History of Soccer (2019), and Cricket in the 21st Century (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Cricket, syndicated Englishness, and postcoloniality
2. Narratives of cricket and collective history
3. The making of a city of cricket
4. Politicians, patronage, and centre-state relations
5. Spectators, gender, and public space
6. The moral economy of violent 'gentlemen'
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.