Sports Education in Colonial Bengal

A Double-Edged Sword

Bibliographic Data

ID11447604
AuthorsBasudhita Basu (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume38
Issue3
Pages268-286
Publication date2018-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSouth Asia Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0262-7280 • E-ISSN: 1741-3141
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0262728018798966
OpenAlexW2894864635
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited15

Insufficient attention has been given to studies that relate sports, education and colonial policies in South Asia. Partly based on archival research, this article brings out different perspectives on the introduction of British sports into colonial Bengal as an educational device to produce obedient subjects. Several hegemonic and educational agenda intersected to formulate civilising ambitions. However, these turned out to be only partially successful, since the civilising aims of colonial sports education were constantly undercut by local acts of adaptation and modification. Dramatic evidence of Indians’ sports victories, in due course, severely challenged hegemonic agenda, so that strengthening and educating ‘the natives’ through sports turned out to be a double-edged sword. But this process also gave the Indian subcontinent a unique, exciting sports culture with nationalist colourings

BENGAL · Colonialism · Hegemony · Indigenous · Media studies · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · SWORD · Doping in Sports · Engineering · Gender Studies · History · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society

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