LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:6 June 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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Indigenous Physical Culture of Bengal During the British Regime

Dr. Subhabrata Kar

Abstract

During the British regime, Bengal was ahead in all types of revolutionary activity, much influenced by different components of the then Bengali society. Those components were the influence of some great philosophers or thinkers, influence of akhra, bratachari and revolutionary movements, influence of indigenous rural games, great clubs and other physical activities of Bengal regarding physical culture of the Bengali people. Obviously, Bengali physical culture was very much influenced by revolutionary activities of akhras or clubs and at the same time it is proper to mention that in rural Bengal there was a great storage of indigenous minor and folk games. In British India Bengali people were very much fond of indigenous rural games and sports as well as bratachari dance and activities.

Introduction

From the middle of the nineteenth century, there was a growing awareness of the potentiality for a national physical culture that would raise Indian individuals and society from the degeneracy into which they were perceived to be sunk. For example, from the 1850s until at least the 1930s the nationalistic Bengali Hindu elite “strove to overcome its supposed degeneracy through the pursuit of physical culture.” The struggle to define an Indian form of body discipline was rendered ambivalent by the acceptance of certain core ideological values of a Western, and ultimately imperialist, discourse on manliness and the body.

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Dr. Subhabrata Kar
Assistant Professor
Department of Physical Education
Union Christian Training College
Berhampore 742101
District: Murshidabad
West Bengal
India
skarrana@gmail.com
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