Scoring Off the Field: Football Culture in Bengal, 1911-80 - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Kausik BandyopadhyaySeries:South Asian History and CulturePublish date:2016-01-21Pages:346
Language:EnglishPublisher:Routledge Chapman & HallISBN-13:9781138659964ISBN-10:1138659967UPC:9781138659964Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Popular Culture, SociologyBook Topic:UrbanSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SC8ABDP3E3
Scoring Off the Field: Football Culture in Bengal, 1911-80
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 social force with a rare emotional spontaneity and peculiar self-expressive fan culture against the...
Series: South Asian History and Culture
Language:EnglishPublisher:Routledge Chapman & HallISBN-13:9781138659964ISBN-10:1138659967UPC:9781138659964Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Popular Culture, SociologyBook Topic:UrbanSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SC8ABDP3E3
Kausik Bandyopadhyay teaches History at West Bengal State University, Barasat, West Bengal, India and is an Associate Editor of the journal Soccer and Society.
Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall
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