Scoring Off the Field: Football Culture in Bengal, 1911-80

by Kausik Bandyopadhyay

Book Overview

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 background of anti-imperial nationalist movement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138659967
• ISBN13: 9781138659964
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Routledge India
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"