Abstract

Contents: [1] Introduction. [2] From recreation to competition: Early history of Indian football. [3] 1911: A revisionist perspective. (Offers a major corrective to the conventional historical interpretations of the victory of Indian football team Mohun Bagan in 1911 and attempts to reconstruct its nationalist, racist, social, cultural and economic significance in proper historical perspective.) [4] Race, nation and performance: footballing nationalism in colonial India. (Articulates the footballing nationalism in colonial India. Evidence of the repressive sporting imperialism; Discussion on football as an apolitical avenue for expression of the colonized against the colonialist; Trend of British racism in soccer.) [5] Contesting neighbours: The years of turmoil. (The intention is to emphasize that the British had stopped being a significant presence in Indian football by the 1930s and that Indians had adopted the game and played amongst themselves since they had first picked it up in the nineteenth century.) [6] Brothers turn rivals: Communal conflict in Indian football. [7] A century old journey (photographs of football teams and football players in India). [8] Ghati-Bangal on the maidan: Subregionalism, club rivalry and fan culture in Indian football. [9] Regionalism and club domination: Growth of rival centres of footballing excellence (focuses on the role of regional rivalry between leading state football teams in sustaining football’s popularity in India). [10] A sporting colony of growing global capital: Globalization and Indian soccer. [11] The gendered kick: Women’s soccer in twentieth century India (discusses the history of Indian women’s football). [12] Looking beyond the sleeping giant syndrome: Indian football at crossroads. (The Indian colossus remains mostly in slumber, despite intermittent bouts of insomnia, reacting to the occasional attempts to rouse it. But such awakenings have seldom had sufficient effect as to transcend regional frontiers.) [13] Conclusion (It concludes by suggesting that Indian soccer ranks high in terms of its culture, tradition and moss following but that it needs proper direction for it to come into the international stage as a viable presence.) Inhaltsverzeichnis (ergänzt).
Gleichzeitig Sondernummer 2/3 (June/September 205) der Zeitschrift "Soccer and Society"