TY  - BOOK
AU  - Majumdar, Boria and ,Bandyopadhyay,Kausik
TI  - A Social History of Indian Football : : Striving to Score
SN  - 9781138982222
U1  - 306.4830954 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - History -- Indian Football--1850-2004
N1  - A Social History of Indian Football covers the period 1850-2004. It considers soccer as a derivative sport, creatively and imaginatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs - designed to fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations. The book is concerned with the appropriation, assimilation and subversion of sporting ideals in colonial and post-colonial India for nationalist needs
ER  -