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Cricket and globalization: global processes and the imperial game

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2013

Fahad Mustafa
Fahad Mustafa*
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University of Vienna, Austria E-mail: fahad@globalistan.org
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Abstract

This article seeks to reposition sport as a subject of analysis in ‘global historical’ processes. It examines the diffusion of cricket in the British empire, its appropriation by the colonies, and the subsequent commercialization of the sport. It asks the question: how did an elite English sport come to be one controlled by a former colony – India? With this as the substantive question, it seeks to develop theoretical insights about the nature of global processes and cultural transfers in the twentieth century. By way of conclusion, it asserts that, as a result of these global processes, there was a tangible shift in the ‘cultural economy’ of sports from the developed nations of the West to the developing nations.

Keywords

cricketdiffusionempireIndiasport governance
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Articles
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Journal of Global History , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , July 2013 , pp. 318 - 341
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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