Boria Majumdar

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how sport emerged as the mirror wherein an Indian identity started to reassess itself as part of a nationalist enterprise during the colonial period, and examine the reconfiguration of the games ethic and the principles of muscular Christianity.

TL;DR: In fact, the American reaction to Empire sport was simply the opposite of the Indian retort to the imperial games as discussed by the authors, and the common reference point remains the Empire in both cases, the desire was to dissociate American sport from British sport, in countries like India where the Empire lasted far longer.

TL;DR: A study of sports history is crucial not only to understand the evolving sporting heritage of a nation, but also to appreciate seemingly unrelated political processes such as nationalism, colonial culture, etc as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The Indian public school was created out of a hotchpotch of Victorian motives imperial calculation, ethnocentric selfconfidence and well meaning benevolence, and sport in general, and football in particular, were important 'colonial technologies of conquest and rule', to borrow the phrase from Nicholas Dirks as discussed by the authors.