Outputs (3)

Gender, Power, and Cricket Spectators in Calcutta, 1960s-1990s (2021)
Journal Article
Naha, S. (2022). Gender, Power, and Cricket Spectators in Calcutta, 1960s-1990s. Historical Journal, 65(3), 774-796. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x21000406

Historians of modern India have emphasized the reflexivity of men and women in the making of womanhood, paying attention to notions of gender difference emerging from both primordial, restrictive codes of behaviour and contrarian impulses towards wha... Read More about Gender, Power, and Cricket Spectators in Calcutta, 1960s-1990s.

Live sport during the COVID-19 crisis: fans as creative broadcasters (2020)
Journal Article
Majumdar, B., & Naha, S. (2020). Live sport during the COVID-19 crisis: fans as creative broadcasters. Sport in Society, 23(7), 1091-1099. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2020.1776972

The hiatus in stadium spectatorship due to the COVID-19 pandemic presents us with a unique opportunity to rethink the way sport fans participate in the making of live events. Some sport leagues have resumed, with others to follow, but the stadium exp... Read More about Live sport during the COVID-19 crisis: fans as creative broadcasters.

With or without Cricket? The Two Lives of the English Game in a Decolonizing India (2016)
Journal Article
Naha, S. (2017). With or without Cricket? The Two Lives of the English Game in a Decolonizing India. Sport in Society, 20(10), 1405-1423. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2016.1221074

This article explores the contradictory responses to cricket in India from the perspective of transcultural encounters. Football and hockey lost their foreign character by the time of India’s independence in the mid-twentieth century, but cricket was... Read More about With or without Cricket? The Two Lives of the English Game in a Decolonizing India.