'With political Pakistan in the offing...': Football and communal politics in South Asia, 1887-1947

Journal of Contemporary History

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 377-394

  Dimeo, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34248061470     PISSN: 00220094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022009403038003003     Document Type: Review

References (35)

1. R. Guha, 'Cricket and Politics in Colonial India', Past and Present, 161 (1998), 164
2. A. Appadurai, 'Playing With Modernity: The Decolonization of Indian Cricket' in Carol A. Breckenridge (ed.), Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in Contemporary India (Minneapolis 1995), 31
3. Until recently, nationalist politicians in Scotland complained that the country's sports fans were '90-minute patriots', implying that nationhood was perceived mainly in terms of support for sports teams and not in terms of sustained political action for independence. See G. Jarvie and G. Walker, Scottish Sport in the Making of the Nation: Ninety Minute Patriots? (Leicester 1994)
4. Writing on the relationship between football and the start of the Yugoslavian civil war in August 1991, Vrcan and Lalic argue that the 'tribal activity of football following, particularly "hooligan" actions, was transferred from the [stadium] ends to the trenches.' See S. Vrcan and D. Lalic, 'From Ends to Trenches, and Back: Football in the Former Yugoslavia' in G. Armstrong and R. Giulianotti (eds), Football Cultures and Identities (Basingstoke 1999), 176
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11. P. Dimeo and J. Mills (eds), Soccer in South Asia: Empire, Nation, Diaspora (London 2001)
12. P. Dimeo, 'Football and Politics in Bengal: Colonialism, Nationalism, Communalism' in P. Dimeo and J. Mills (eds), op. cit
13. A. de Mello, A Portrait of Indian Sport (London 1959)
14. M. Bose, A Maidan View: The Magic of Indian Cricket (London 1986). A speculative suggestion that requires further research is that when the Muslims moved from Calcutta to East Pakistan after Independence an important football-playing and supporting constituency had left India. Football is now the most popular sport in Bangladesh, and had those people remained in India, the sport may have had a more solid base for development after 1947
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17. J. Mills, 'Football in Goa: Sport, Politics and the Portuguese in India' in Dimeo and Mills (eds), op. cit
18. R.B. Alaway, Football All Round the World (London 1948), 105-6. This report is infused with orientalist descriptions typical of British colonial attitudes to India: that it was over-run by fanatics, insane, dangerous, fatalistic, yet quite easily defeated through courage and rationality
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21. Evening Times, 26 August 1936
22. Daily Record and Mail, 27 August 1936
23. A. Breck, Alan Breck's Book of Scottish Football (Edinburgh 1937)
24. 'Abdul (Mac) Salem and the Celts', West African Review (March 1949)
25. see also P. Dimeo, 'Racism, Football and Cultural Difference: The Experience of Scottish Asians', unpublished PhD thesis, University of Strathclyde 2000
26. Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1 August 1934. Such was his enthusiasm over this football success story that he spent 1000 rupees on a lavish civic reception for the players and management
27. J.M. Ganguly, 'Quadrangular Cricket: A Plea for its Abolition', Indian Cricket [Bombay], January 1983, 188, cited in R. Guha, op. cit., 189
28. Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1 August 1934
29. Hindustan Times, 7 December 1940
30. Ghoshal, Kolkatta Football (Calcutta 1988)
31. see also J. Ahmad (ed.), Some Recent Speeches and Writings of Mr Jinnah, vol. II (Lahore 1947)
32. S. Das, Communal Riots in Bengal, 1905-1947 (Delhi 1993), 161
33. Calcutta Telegraph, 20 June 1998
34. P. Dimeo and J. Mills, 'Conclusion: Past, Present, Future' in Dimeo and Mills (eds), op. cit., 162
35. A. Appadurai and C.A. Breckenridge, 'Why Public Culture?', Public Culture, 1, 1 (1988), 6