Manuscript Number : GISRRJ23658

Styling the Uniform: Sport and Clothing in Colonial India

Authors(1) :-Anupama

Early-twentieth century books and journals focused on the idea of sports and in the process defined forms of new dressing for Indian women – elite and domestic middle class. Dress for western women was supposed to reflect comfort, mobility and femininity but for Indian women these ideals had to go along with a concern with identity and tradition. We see how the popularity of sports was a slow process among women and so was the adoption of sports costume. Works on sport history in India have largely focused on men’s sport and the question of women’s involvement in sports during the colonial period is completely absent. This chapter hoped to fill this gap. We see that there was a culture of native games and there was popularity of English sport too. However, professional sport for women gained importance very late. In the contemporary period as well we see that women’s sport at the national level is an area that has been neglected and there has always been a lack of funding.

Authors and Affiliations

Anupama
Assistant Professor, M.M. Mahila College, Ara, Bihar

Styling, Uniform, Sport, Colonial, Popularity, Early-Twentieth

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 6 | Issue 5 | September-October 2023
Date of Publication : 2023-09-12
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 58-66
Manuscript Number : GISRRJ23658
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

ISSN : 2582-0095

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Anupama , "Styling the Uniform: Sport and Clothing in Colonial India ", Gyanshauryam, International Scientific Refereed Research Journal (GISRRJ), ISSN : 2582-0095, Volume 6, Issue 5, pp.58-66, September-October.2023
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