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From Community to Communal: Unveiling the Minority Identity in Sports Politics.

From Community to Communal: Unveiling the Minority Identity in Sports Politics.

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From Community to Communal: Unveiling the Minority Identity in Sports Politics.
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<strong>CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF DISCRIMINATION AND EXCLUSION (CSDE) SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY, NEW DELHI </strong> a Lecture on <strong>From Community to Communal: Unveiling the Minority Identity in Sports Politics. </strong> by <strong>Dr. Amitava Chatterjee </strong> Department of History, Ramsaday College <strong>February 10, 2015</strong> The paper tries to bring out the convergences and the dichotomies that existed between nationalism and communalism in twentieth century Bengal. More importantly, it would indicate the fact that sports as an arena of everyday life of an individual was not free from the tensions of majoritarian and minority voices of history and politics. It would prove that Mohammedan Sporting's victories did represent a turning point in the identity politics of Calcutta, since it buttressed the Muslim League's claim to a separate territorial space, based on one's own religious and cultural attainments. The victories in the football ground proved to be a cementing bloc in the abyss between the Muslim subalterns and the elite profession based Muslim gentry and this made the Muslim identity resemble the form of a homogenous/ composite identity, blurring the distribution of class, territory and language. The paper will focus on the growth and emergence of communitarian identities, its interface with institutional politics, the transition to communalization of politics and finally to the phase of communalization in late colonial Bengal.

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