Kausik Bandyopadhyay teaches History at West Bengal State University, Barasat, Kolkata. Formerly a Fellow of the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne (2010) and the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata (2006?2009 and 2013?2015), he is also the Editor of Soccer and Society (Routledge). Bandyopadhyay has authored and edited several books. His most recent works include Sport, Culture and Nation: Perspectives from Indian Football and South Asian Cricket (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2015); Bangladesh Playing: Sport, Culture, Nation (Dhaka: Subarna/ ICBS, 2012); and Scoring Off the Field: Football Culture in Bengal, 1911?80 (New Delhi/London: Routledge, 2011).
How the most important man of our national movement viewed the most important sport in our country.
