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Author : Souvik Naha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1108494587
This book expands our historical understanding of postcolonial India by examining how cricket has shaped Indian society and politics.
Author : Souvik Naha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1009276255
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.
Author : Anne Hardgrove
Publisher :
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231122160
An elite community in India, neither Anglicized nor traditional, shaped instead by diaspora and capitalist enterprise, is the subject of Anne Hardgrove's research.
Author : Souvik Naha
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 2024-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192889287
This book presents a historical understanding of contemporary society by examining beliefs, attitudes, and practices generated by cricket. It examines how cricket reflects twenty-first-century shifts in nationalism, liberalism, cosmopolitanism, and authoritarianism, and explores how identities derived from the sport impact global identity politics.
Author : Souvik Naha
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 2017
Category :
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Author : Md Abu Nasim
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 2021-04-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1638065799
Stadiums in Calcutta: A new Genre of Sports Culture is set in the format of micro-study, which deals with different aspects of sports life. We know that that sports culture is an important aspect of history, which has been borrowed from the West. The indigenous people accepted this new culture of games in Bengal. The native middle-class of Calcutta was showed an eagerness for Western games such as Football and Cricket. When they saw the English of white town playing such as an engaging game. The adopted game of Cricket and football in course of time introduced new institutions and new avenues, the stadium being the most important among them. The book reflects on the politics around the stadium.
Author : Sumanta Banerjee
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 15,25 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN :
Sumanta Banerjee Analyses The Development Of The Various Forms Of Folk Culture Of The Urban Poor In The New Metropolis Of Calcutta, As A Fallout Of The Process Of Urbanization In The Wake Of The Establishment Of The British Colonial System In Bengal. Profusely Illustrated With Examples Of Contemporary Street Songs And Popular Performing Arts, The Book Traces The Beginings Of Tension Between These Urban Folk Cultural Forms And The New Culture Of The Bengali Elite That Was Western In Inspiration.
Author : Krishna Dutta
Publisher : Signal Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,95 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Calcutta (India)
ISBN : 9781902669595
In the popular imagination, Calcutta is a packed and pestilential sprawl, made notorious by the Black Hole and the works of Mother Teresa. Kipling called it a City of Dreadful Night, and a century later V.S. Naipaul, Gunter Grass and Louis Malle revived its hellish image. This is the place where the West first truly encountered the East. Founded in the 1690s by East India Company merchants beside the Hugli River, Calcutta grew into India's capital during the Raj and the second city of the British Empire. Named the City of Palaces for its neoclassical mansions, Calcutta was the city of Clive, Hastings, Macaulay and Curzon. It was also home to extraordinary Bengalis such as Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel laureate, and Satyajit Ray, among the geniuses of world cinema. Above all, Calcutta (renamed Kolkata in 2001) is a city of extremes, where exquisite refinement rubs shoulders with coarse commercialism and political violence. Krishna Dutta explores these multiple paradoxes, giving personal insight into Calcutta's unique history and modern identity as reflected in its architecture, literature, cinema and music. CITY OF ARTISTS: Modern India's cultural capital; home city of
Author : Souvik Naha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1108494587
This book expands our historical understanding of postcolonial India by examining how cricket has shaped Indian society and politics.
Author : Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1009276743
The book studies the social production of motion in a capitalist urban context. In the city of capital, motion refers to a fetish. The bourgeois order posits motion as a metaphor for energy, positivity, and progress – a norm – and obstruction (motion's dialectical opposite) as delinquency. The book uncovers the social tectonics of spatial mobilization and thus demystifies motion. Who and what set spaces on the move? How did various classes of city dwellers activate, experience, and negotiate it? Streets in Motion develops an approach to urban history by theorizing and historicizing the 'street' as an apparatus of city-making and subject formation. It works at two registers – a local history of Calcutta in colonial and post-colonial periods, and a theorizing of the logistical and political-cultural centrality of the street within this rubric. It is argued that the street is politics in as much as politics is the production of space.