A Sociological Understanding of Sport in India

Abstract

Elizabeth Pike’s essay explains how theoretical concepts and understandings have been utilised with effect to perceive and understand sports in society, illustrating it with emerging issues in India. The importance of developing a genuinely post-colonial sociology of sports is underlined through adopting theoretical frameworks located within the discipline of sociology to explore and explain specific case studies of sports across regions, structures of operation, social distinctions, and the like. The focus is on dwelling on interdisciplinarity grounded in a range of perspectives that shed light on the social dimensions of sport in India.