- Title
- Who are these Australian fellows with ‘Grim determination and astounding stamina’?
- Creator
- Ponsford, Megan
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/168094
- Identifier
- vital:13802
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2017.1329111
- Identifier
- ISBN:1743-0437
- Abstract
- In light of the absence of living participants, this article extrapolates what the Australian cricketers departing on the inaugural cricket tour of India in 1935 may have known about late colonial-era India. This article argues that the depiction of India by the British Empire was a consciously evoked and celebrated construct perpetuated by orthodox ideology and popular culture. Through a close analysis of press reportage it is determined that the Australian public, and the departing cricketers, were ignorant of accurate knowledge of Indian culture and politics. The Australian media’s portrayal of Kipling’s writings, Indian religious practices and Indian cinema is compared with the cricketers’ response to these themes. Correspondingly, the Indian communities’ knowledge of Australia through evaluating the, at times, propagandistic promotional material generated for the tour is also critiqued. It is argued that representations of the Australian cricketers and the populist depiction of Indian culture are correspondingly implausible and driven by idealized expectations and stereotypes of national identity.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Relation
- Sport in Society Vol. 22, no. 1 (2019), p. 73-96
- Rights
- Copyright © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1106 Human Movement and Sports Science; 1504 Commercial Services; 1608 Sociology; Cricket; Promotional material; Culture
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