Vaidehi Hariyani

1. “Cricket is religion in India”
Post-colonial perspective
Prepared by
Vaidehi Hariyani
Batch 2015-17
Paper – 8
Smt.S.B.Gardi, Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

2. Post-colonialism
• With the word ‘post-colonialism’ the
relationship between colonizer and colonized
comes.
• It is an academic discipline featuring method
of intellectual discourse that analyse, explain
and respond to the cultural legacies of
colonialism and imperialism.
• It is concerned with the oppression of Non-
European races by European ones.

3. Cricket
National Game
• England
Popular in
• India

4. Questions
• Why Cricket is so much Popular in
India?
• Why the cricketers earn more than
any other sports person?
• What about our National game
‘Hockey’?

5. Why it is so Popular in India?
Why it is Religion in India?
• One of the reason is
Brahminical tradition
or elitism.
• The Sports culture is
also controlled by
elitist. So, superior
place is given.
• In other games we
find non-elite people.
So they do not get a
superior place.

6. Cricket as religion in India
• Cricket, a game of
colonizers is taken as a
religion and the
cricketers are taken as
God.
• We don’t want to get
free from being
colonized.

7. Cricket
• Popular
• More money
• More advertisement
• More controversy
Other Games
• Not so popular
• Less money
• Less advertisement
• Less controversy
Cricket Versus Other Games

8. The Culture of Cricket
• Many People
Supporting –
“Water-less ” Holi….
• What about drought
stricken area like
Maharashtra?
• Is it appropriate to
call cricket as
religion in India?

9. Nationalism……Real or Fake?
• The so called
“Nationalists” are against
the First World Nation.
• Debate on using English
Language.
• Ban on things produced by
the First world nations.
• Why Cricket is not
banned????????

10. Conclusion
• How ever happy
we are that we as
a Nation are free,
but we are still
colonized in a
way.

11. THANK YOU

12. Open for Questions and Suggestions
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