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colonisers and helped in reducing various forms of societal discrimination, while football came to be seen as an equalising game that cut across class lines and united the global anti-imperialist struggle in left-wing regions such as Kerala and West Bengal. British accusations of Indian effeminacy, which enabled them to demonstrate superiority and powered their programs to reshape local practices, were resisted in a variety of ways, with success against British teams seen as contributing to national revival. However, the interaction between local beliefs and Western sporting practices also manifested itself in anti-sport ways at times: the initial introduction of football at one
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school, designed to produce physical fitness among the children, had to take place by force because the schoolboys saw contact with the ball as defiling them, and similar sentiments of avoiding defilement led to Brahmins preferring cricket because it didn't involve contact with lower castes.
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The transformation of sports and society in South Asia and the accompanying element of coloniality and anti-colonial resistance caused unique transformations throughout this time period: cricket, for example, came to be seen as a unifying way to demonstrate resistance and success against the
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The poverty of South Asia has continued to be a defining factor in limiting the success of sport in the region; until the 1970s, for example, cricket and football were not prevalent because of the expensiveness of buying balls.
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was popular for several decades, with some of South Asia's greatest sporting accomplishments having taken place in this sport. Some
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Various traditional sports have had professional leagues started for them in the 21st century (largely propelled by the
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Field hockey was popular for several decades after the colonial era. After India's victory in the
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Women's sports have grown in South Asia with the advent of women's sporting leagues such as the
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were played at the time, with kho-kho having been mentioned in the fourth century BCE, and
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Some South Asian board games were transmitted overseas, such as the games now known as
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Kho Kho, a kabaddi-like sport linked with Indian epic Mahabharata - know all about it
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around 300 CE; some of them were used for military training purposes. The board game
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of South Asia introduced several British sports into the subcontinent, such as
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History of hockey in India: Taught by the British, India conquered the world
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that took place in India that increased investing into sports), such as the
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One of the most important sports rivalries within the subcontinent is the
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with the return of refugees who had learned the sport in Pakistan.
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being the most popular of them; 90% of the sport's worldwide fans
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is followed passionately in some parts of South Asia, such as
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Bromber, Katrin; Krawietz, Birgit; Maguire, Joseph (2013).
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Index

Sport in India
Traditional games of South Asia

Kabaddi
Asian Games
1990
cricket
live in South Asia
Football
Kerala
Bengal
Field hockey
native South Asian games
kabaddi
kho-kho
South Asian Games
Asian Games
South Asian physical culture
martial arts
kalaripayattu
variations of tag
atya-patya
chaturanga
chess
South Asian sports at the Olympics

rugby
Kolkata
British colonisation
cricket

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