"Cricket is religion in India" - Post-colonial perspective

“Cricket is religion in India”Post-colonial perspective

Prepared byVaidehi HariyaniBatch 2015-17

Paper – 8Smt.S.B.Gardi, Department of English

Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

Post-colonialism• With the word ‘post-colonialism’ the

relationship between colonizer and colonized comes.

• It is an academic discipline featuring method of intellectual discourse that analyse, explain and respond to the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism.

• It is concerned with the oppression of Non-European races by European ones.

Cricket

National Game• England

Popular in• India

Questions

• Why Cricket is so much Popular in India?• Why the cricketers earn more than

any other sports person?• What about our National game

‘Hockey’?

Why it is so Popular in India?Why it is Religion in India?

• One of the reason is Brahminical tradition or elitism.

• The Sports culture is also controlled by elitist. So, superior place is given.

• In other games we find non-elite people. So they do not get a superior place.

Cricket as religion in India

• Cricket, a game of colonizers is taken as a religion and the cricketers are taken as God.

• We don’t want to get free from being colonized.

Cricket• Popular • More money• More advertisement• More controversy

Other Games• Not so popular• Less money• Less advertisement• Less controversy

Cricket Versus Other Games

The Culture of Cricket

• Many People Supporting – “Water-less ” Holi….

• What about drought stricken area like Maharashtra?

• Is it appropriate to call cricket as religion in India?

Nationalism……Real or Fake?• The so called

“Nationalists” are against the First World Nation.

• Debate on using English Language.

• Ban on things produced by the First world nations.

• Why Cricket is not banned????????

Conclusion

• How ever happy we are that we as a Nation are free, but we are still colonized in a way.

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