SOCIAL HISTORY OF INDIAN FOOTBALL: STRIVING TO SCORE

"A Social History of Indian Football, Striving to Score seeks to assess the role of soccer in colonial Indian life, to delineate the inter-relationship between those who patronized, promoted, played and viewed the game, to analyse the impact of the colonial context on the games evolution and development and sheds light on the diverse nature of trysts with the sport across the country. Throughout this book, soccer is the lens that illuminates India's colonial and post-colonial encounter."--BOOK JACKET.