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In Search of a Football Ground in Twentieth Century Urban Bengal
| Title: | In Search of a Football Ground in Twentieth Century Urban Bengal | | Author: | Bandyopadhyay, Kausik | | Publication: | Soccer and Society | | Enumeration: | Vol. 6 Issue 1, p69, 10p, Spring 2005 | | Abstract: | This essay attempts to analyse the complex relationship between geography and Indian football. It contends that football ground/stadia development/re-development, largely and continuously influenced by environmental factors such as weather patterns or nature of the local landscape, reflects the emotional attachment, social control, political design and economic transformation of the Indian nation, a factor given little importance in existing writings on Indian sport. It also argues that beyond the fascinating story of the game's internal geography, lies an external factor no less interesting and goes on to suggest that the problems of open space utilization have significantly influenced football's fortunes in urban India. Source of Abstract: Provided by Author(s) | | See Also: | | Tools: |
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