A Cultural Exploration of the Origin of Cricket in India Qijun Zhang*
Sports Culture Research Center,Tianjin university of Sport
No.16 Donghai Road,Tianjin 301617,China
*a15684162992[at]163.com
Abstract
In terms of the stages of development of British sports, the development of traditional sports to modern sports developed almost simultaneously with the British colonial expansion, and sports, as an important cultural form, spread to the colonies along with the British cultural expansion and colonial rule. During the early period of British colonial rule, the spread of sports was a non-active phase of diffusion, mainly based on the interaction between British immigrants who migrated to the colonies and local Indians. During the period when India was colonized by Britain, British sports were the exclusive activity of whites, but the sports activities they participated in and their obsession with sports clubs soon spread to the Indian population as well, and the first large number of participants in British sports One of the main reasons why the Parsis became cricket fans was because of their closer relationship with the British as traders. In the late colonial period, the spread of the sport became more and more a purposeful act to expand the colonial power, and the spread of the sport became more widespread. This paper explores the cultural factors involved in the spread and development of cricket during the British colonial period in India: 1) the endogenous dynamics of the spread and development of modern sports- 2) the non-conscious cultural invasion of British colonial India- and 3) the active cultural control of British colonial India.
