School of Social & Political Sciences

Dr Souvik Naha

  • Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Post-colonial History (Political & International Studies)

email: Souvik.Naha@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: He/him/his

Room 613A, Gilbert Scott Building, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, G12 8QQ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883

Biography

The main focus of my research is the making of modern South Asia and the British Empire. My research investigates how sport—particularly cricket—has shaped cultural identity, social relations, and political imagination in South Asian and Indo-British contexts.

My first monograph analysed how journalists and broadcasters helped popularise cricket as an everyday leisure activity in twentieth-century Calcutta. By tracing how media narratives embedded cricket into the rhythms of urban life, it illuminated wider processes of cultural transfer and the lingering afterlife of colonialism within a decolonising society. It brought together the histories of everyday life, popular culture, regional politics, and the transnational flow of ideas to show how cricket became a powerful medium through which Bengalis interpreted social change, articulated a distinct cultural community, fostered new social relationships, and created a language of belonging in postcolonial Calcutta.

I subsequently broadened my scholarship on decolonisation with a broader examination of how cricket reshaped Britain's relationship with independent India and Pakistan. Through an exploration of issues of race, mobility, migration, diplomacy, and orientalist and environmental thoughts, the project has revealed how sport operated as an informal but influential arena in which political and cultural ties between South Asia and Britain were renegotiated. This research forms the basis of my second monograph, which will analyse the role of sport in reimagining the British World and the Commonwealth from the 1940s to the 1960s.

Influenced by my own passion for travelling, I have started exploring travel narratives as a means to understanding how intercontinental, long-distance journeys undertaken by colonial Indians emerged as a politically conscious radical practice that challenged imperial monopolies on mobility and permissible politics.

Research interests

  • The British Empire since the nineteenth century
  • Decolonisation and postcoloniality
  • Modern South Asia
  • Sport
  • Travel
  • Health and medicine
  • Mass media, advertising and visual culture

Research groups

Publications

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2025

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2025) ICC’s Code of Conduct and political interference in cricket: inconsistent stances. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, 10(2), pp. 117-120. (doi: 10.20529/ijme.2025.031) (PMID:40561421)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2025) 'The greatest permanent link between this country and the East': cricket diplomacy at the end of the British Empire in South Asia, c.1932-1950. English Historical Review, 140(604-5), pp. 747-776. (doi: 10.1093/ehr/ceaf022)

2024

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2024) Introduction: Uncanny belongings: affective nationalism, state power, and cricket in the twenty-first century. In: Naha, Souvik (ed.) Cricket and Nationhood in the Twenty-First Century: Identity Projects in Uncertain Times. Series: Ox. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9780191982576 (doi: 10.1093/9780191982576.003.0001)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (Ed.) (2024) Cricket and Nationhood in the Twenty-First Century: Identity Projects in Uncertain Times. Series: Oxford scholarship online. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780191982576

Fischer-Tine, Harald and Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2024) Man-making and world-making on two wheels: Indian ‘globe cyclists’ in the interwar years. Journal of Global History, 19(3), pp. 392-420. (doi: 10.1017/S1740022823000323)

2023

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Malcolm, Dominic (Eds.) (2023) Cricket in the 21st Century. Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives. Routledge. ISBN 9781032662138

2022

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2022) Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108494588 (doi: 10.1017/9781108781190)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2022) Gender, power, and cricket spectators in Calcutta, 1960s–1990s. Historical Journal, 65(3), pp. 774-796. (doi: 10.1017/S0018246X21000406)

2021

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2021) Flight of fantasy or reflections of passion? Knowledge, skill and fantasy cricket. Sport in Society, 24(8), pp. 1322-1335. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2019.1607012)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Malcolm, Dominic (2021) Cricket at the beginning of the long twenty-first century. Sport in Society, 24(8), pp. 1267-1273. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2021.1932307)

Bandyopadhyay, Kausik and Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (Eds.) (2021) Moments, Metaphors, Memories: Defining Events in the History of Soccer. Routledge: London.

2020

Majumdar, Boria and Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2020) Live sport during the COVID-19 crisis: fans as creative broadcasters. Sport in Society, 23(7), pp. 1091-1099. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2020.1776972)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2020) Hill, Jeffrey. Learie Constantine and Race Relations in Britain and the Empire. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. x+ 240. Index and six illustrations. £85, hb. Journal of Sport History, 47(2), pp. 176-178. (doi: 10.1353/sph.2020.0038)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2020) The rise of modern sport and the Olympic Movement in India. In: Hong, Fan and Zhouxiang, Lu (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Sport in Asia. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 126-134. ISBN 9780367183776 (doi: 10.4324/9780429061202-16)

2019

Bandyopadhyay, Kausik and Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2019) Defining moments in the history of soccer. Soccer and Society, 20(7–8), pp. 897-902. (doi: 10.1080/14660970.2019.1680489)

2018

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2018) Book Review: Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Mahatma on the Pitch: Gandhi & Cricket in India. South Asia Research, 38(3), pp. 350-352. (doi: 10.1177/0262728018798989)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Hassan, David (Eds.) (2018) Ethical Concerns in Sport Governance. Routledge: London ; New York. ISBN 9780367586720

Bandyopadhyay, Kausik, Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Mitra, Shakya (Eds.) (2018) FIFA World Cup and Beyond: Sport, Culture, Media and Governance. Series: Sport in the global society: contemporary perspectives. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. ISBN 9780815396338

Bandyopadhyay, Kausik, Naha, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Mitra, Shakya (2018) Introduction. In: Bandyopadhyay, Kausik, Naha, Souvik and Mitra, Shakya (eds.) FIFA World Cup and Beyond: Sport, Culture, Media and Governance. Series: Sport in the global society: contemporary perspectives. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 1-8. ISBN 9780815396338

Mitra, Sarbajit and Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2018) Politics and international fandom in a fringe nation: La Albiceleste, Maradona, and Marxist Kolkata. In: Bandyopadhyay, Kausik, Naha, Souvik and Mitra, Shakya (eds.) FIFA World Cup and Beyond: Sport, Culture, Media and Governance. Series: Sport in the global society: contemporary perspectives. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 114-128. ISBN 9780815396338

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2018) Sport in emerging markets. In: Hassan, David (ed.) Managing Sport Business: an Introduction. Series: Foundations of sport management. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 115-130. ISBN 9781138291362 (doi: 10.4324/9781315265476-7)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Hassan, David (2018) Introduction: ethical concerns in sport governance. Sport in Society, 21(5), pp. 721-723. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2018.1400783)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2018) Dominic Malcolm, Sport, Medicine and Health: The Medicalization of Sport? (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. x+212, £105, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-138-82645-8. Medical History, 62(2), pp. 247-248. (doi: 10.1017/mdh.2018.9)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2018) Jagmohan Dalmiya: the Prometheus of modern cricket? In: Bayle, Emmanuel and Clastres, Patrick (eds.) Global Sport Leaders: a Biographical Analysis of International Sport Management. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 395-415. ISBN 9783319767529 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-76753-6_15)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (Ed.) (2018) Global and Transnational Sport: Ambiguous Borders, Connected Domains. Series: Sport in the global society – contemporary perspectives. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780815396680

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2018) “The Russian deadpan expert” vs “America’s white hope”: the personal, the national, and the global in the “Cold War” of chess. In: Vonnard, Philippe, Sbetti, Nicola and Quin, Grégory (eds.) Beyond Boycotts: Sport During the Cold War in Europe. Series: Rethinking the Cold War (1). De Gruyter: Berlin ; Boston, pp. 179-194. ISBN 9783110526660 (doi: 10.1515/9783110529098-010)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2018) Visually playing politics: use of sports as political critique in newspaper cartoons. In: Motrescu-Mayes, Annamaria and Banks, Marcus (eds.) Visual Histories of South Asia. Primus Books, pp. 209-229. ISBN 9789386552440

2017

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2017) ‘Over the border and the gates’? Global and transnational sport. Sport in Society, 20(10), pp. 1347-1353. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2016.1221049)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2017) With or without cricket? The two lives of the English game in a decolonizing India. Sport in Society, 20(10), pp. 1405-1423. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2016.1221074)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2017) A state without a nation? Historicising India's 'conspiracy' against Bengal and its cricketers. In: Hassan, David and Acton, Ciaran (eds.) Sport and Contested Identities: Contemporary Issues and Debates. Series: Routledge research in sport, culture and society (88). Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 132-151. ISBN 9781138696686 (doi: 10.4324/9781315523651-8)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2017) Sport, culture, nation: perspectives from Indian football and South Asian cricket, by Kausik Bandyopadhyay, New Delhi, Sage, 2015,240 pp., ₹ 695 (hbk), ISBN 9789351503026. South Asian History and Culture, 8(3), pp. 390-391. (doi: 10.1080/19472498.2017.1350402)[Book Review]

Bandyopadhyay, Kausik, Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Mitra, Shakya (2017) FIFA World Cup and beyond: sport, culture, media and governance. Sport in Society, 20(5-6), pp. 547-554. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2016.1158475)

Mitra, Sarbajit and Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2017) Politics and international fandom in a fringe nation: La Albiceleste, Maradona, and Marxist Kolkata. Sport in Society, 20(5-6), pp. 660-674. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2016.1158482)

2016

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2016) Koller, Christian and Fabian Brändle. Goal! A Cultural and Social History of Modern Football. Trans. David S. Bachrach. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2015. Pp. 350. $29.95, pb. Journal of Sport History, 43(3), pp. 355-356. (doi: 10.5406/jsporthistory.43.3.0355)[Book Review]

2015

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2015) Pataudi: Nawab of cricket. International Journal of the History of Sport, 32(11-12), pp. 1509-1511. (doi: 10.1080/09523367.2015.1058451)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2015) Agovino, Michael. The Soccer Diaries: An American’s Thirty-Year Pursuit of the International Game. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Pp. 312. $26.95 hb. Journal of Sport History, 42(2), pp. 236-237. (doi: 10.5406/jsporthistory.42.2.0236)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2015) Cricket, entertainment, glamour industry and promotional culture in India, 1913–2013. Sport in History, 35(3), pp. 464-489. (doi: 10.1080/17460263.2015.1088463)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2015) Steen, Rob, Jed Novick, and Huw Richards, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Football. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xxx+313. Fifteen figures and one table. £50.00 hb; £17.99 pb. Journal of Sport History, 42(1), pp. 149-150. (doi: 10.5406/jsporthistory.42.1.149)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2015) The great tamasha: cricket, corruption and the turbulent rise of modern India. International Journal of the History of Sport, 32(2), pp. 379-381. (doi: 10.1080/09523367.2014.949053)[Book Review]

2014

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2014) Sport, Public Broadcasting, and Cultural Citizenship: Signal Lost? Jay Scherer and David Rowe (eds), Sport, Public Broadcasting, and Cultural Citizenship: Signal Lost?, Routledge, New York, 2014, ISBN 9 7804 1588 6031 (hbk), 322 pp. A$140.00. Media International Australia, 153(1), pp. 170-171. (doi: 10.1177/1329878x1415300133)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2014) Of magic and mania: reflections on the fan following of Brazilian football and Pelé in Calcutta. Soccer and Society, 15(5), pp. 804-821. (doi: 10.1080/14660970.2014.912021)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2014) South Africa and the global game: football, apartheid and beyond. Soccer and Society, 15(4), pp. 624-627. (doi: 10.1080/14660970.2013.812327)[Book Review]

2013

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2013) Moving pictures: rickshaw art of Bangladesh. Contemporary South Asia, 21(4), pp. 472-473. (doi: 10.1080/09584935.2013.856593)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2013) Sport controversy, the media and Anglo-Indian cricket relations: the 1977 ‘Vaseline incident’ in retrospect. Sport in Society, 16(10), pp. 1375-1385. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2013.790900)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2013) Politics in the sport press: interrogating representations of the ‘battle of Eden Gardens’, Calcutta, 1967. Sport in Society, 16(9), pp. 1120-1134. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2013.790891)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2013) Race, ethnicity and football: persisting debates and emergent issues. Soccer and Society, 14(4), pp. 569-572. (doi: 10.1080/14660970.2013.791574)[Book Review]

2012

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2012) Adams and Eves at the Eden Gardens: women cricket spectators and the conflict of feminine subjectivity in Calcutta, 1920–1970. International Journal of the History of Sport, 29(5), pp. 711-729. (doi: 10.1080/09523367.2012.675204)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2012) Producing the first Indian cricketing superhero: nationalism, body culture, consumption and the C.K. Nayudu phenomenon. International Journal of the History of Sport, 29(4), pp. 562-582. (doi: 10.1080/09523367.2012.658190)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2012) The match: football and the BBC, 1937–82. Soccer and Society, 13(1), pp. 130-133. (doi: 10.1080/14660970.2012.646147)[Book Review]

2011

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2011) Football fans around the world: from supporters to fanatics. Soccer and Society, 12(5), pp. 703-706. (doi: 10.1080/14660970.2011.604181)[Book Review]

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Articles

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2025) ICC’s Code of Conduct and political interference in cricket: inconsistent stances. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, 10(2), pp. 117-120. (doi: 10.20529/ijme.2025.031) (PMID:40561421)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2025) 'The greatest permanent link between this country and the East': cricket diplomacy at the end of the British Empire in South Asia, c.1932-1950. English Historical Review, 140(604-5), pp. 747-776. (doi: 10.1093/ehr/ceaf022)

Fischer-Tine, Harald and Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2024) Man-making and world-making on two wheels: Indian ‘globe cyclists’ in the interwar years. Journal of Global History, 19(3), pp. 392-420. (doi: 10.1017/S1740022823000323)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2022) Gender, power, and cricket spectators in Calcutta, 1960s–1990s. Historical Journal, 65(3), pp. 774-796. (doi: 10.1017/S0018246X21000406)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2021) Flight of fantasy or reflections of passion? Knowledge, skill and fantasy cricket. Sport in Society, 24(8), pp. 1322-1335. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2019.1607012)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Malcolm, Dominic (2021) Cricket at the beginning of the long twenty-first century. Sport in Society, 24(8), pp. 1267-1273. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2021.1932307)

Majumdar, Boria and Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2020) Live sport during the COVID-19 crisis: fans as creative broadcasters. Sport in Society, 23(7), pp. 1091-1099. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2020.1776972)

Bandyopadhyay, Kausik and Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2019) Defining moments in the history of soccer. Soccer and Society, 20(7–8), pp. 897-902. (doi: 10.1080/14660970.2019.1680489)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Hassan, David (2018) Introduction: ethical concerns in sport governance. Sport in Society, 21(5), pp. 721-723. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2018.1400783)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2017) ‘Over the border and the gates’? Global and transnational sport. Sport in Society, 20(10), pp. 1347-1353. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2016.1221049)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2017) With or without cricket? The two lives of the English game in a decolonizing India. Sport in Society, 20(10), pp. 1405-1423. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2016.1221074)

Bandyopadhyay, Kausik, Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Mitra, Shakya (2017) FIFA World Cup and beyond: sport, culture, media and governance. Sport in Society, 20(5-6), pp. 547-554. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2016.1158475)

Mitra, Sarbajit and Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2017) Politics and international fandom in a fringe nation: La Albiceleste, Maradona, and Marxist Kolkata. Sport in Society, 20(5-6), pp. 660-674. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2016.1158482)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2015) Cricket, entertainment, glamour industry and promotional culture in India, 1913–2013. Sport in History, 35(3), pp. 464-489. (doi: 10.1080/17460263.2015.1088463)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2014) Of magic and mania: reflections on the fan following of Brazilian football and Pelé in Calcutta. Soccer and Society, 15(5), pp. 804-821. (doi: 10.1080/14660970.2014.912021)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2013) Sport controversy, the media and Anglo-Indian cricket relations: the 1977 ‘Vaseline incident’ in retrospect. Sport in Society, 16(10), pp. 1375-1385. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2013.790900)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2013) Politics in the sport press: interrogating representations of the ‘battle of Eden Gardens’, Calcutta, 1967. Sport in Society, 16(9), pp. 1120-1134. (doi: 10.1080/17430437.2013.790891)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2012) Adams and Eves at the Eden Gardens: women cricket spectators and the conflict of feminine subjectivity in Calcutta, 1920–1970. International Journal of the History of Sport, 29(5), pp. 711-729. (doi: 10.1080/09523367.2012.675204)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2012) Producing the first Indian cricketing superhero: nationalism, body culture, consumption and the C.K. Nayudu phenomenon. International Journal of the History of Sport, 29(4), pp. 562-582. (doi: 10.1080/09523367.2012.658190)

Books

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2022) Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108494588 (doi: 10.1017/9781108781190)

Book Sections

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2024) Introduction: Uncanny belongings: affective nationalism, state power, and cricket in the twenty-first century. In: Naha, Souvik (ed.) Cricket and Nationhood in the Twenty-First Century: Identity Projects in Uncertain Times. Series: Ox. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 1-14. ISBN 9780191982576 (doi: 10.1093/9780191982576.003.0001)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2020) The rise of modern sport and the Olympic Movement in India. In: Hong, Fan and Zhouxiang, Lu (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Sport in Asia. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 126-134. ISBN 9780367183776 (doi: 10.4324/9780429061202-16)

Bandyopadhyay, Kausik, Naha, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Mitra, Shakya (2018) Introduction. In: Bandyopadhyay, Kausik, Naha, Souvik and Mitra, Shakya (eds.) FIFA World Cup and Beyond: Sport, Culture, Media and Governance. Series: Sport in the global society: contemporary perspectives. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 1-8. ISBN 9780815396338

Mitra, Sarbajit and Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2018) Politics and international fandom in a fringe nation: La Albiceleste, Maradona, and Marxist Kolkata. In: Bandyopadhyay, Kausik, Naha, Souvik and Mitra, Shakya (eds.) FIFA World Cup and Beyond: Sport, Culture, Media and Governance. Series: Sport in the global society: contemporary perspectives. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 114-128. ISBN 9780815396338

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2018) Sport in emerging markets. In: Hassan, David (ed.) Managing Sport Business: an Introduction. Series: Foundations of sport management. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 115-130. ISBN 9781138291362 (doi: 10.4324/9781315265476-7)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2018) Jagmohan Dalmiya: the Prometheus of modern cricket? In: Bayle, Emmanuel and Clastres, Patrick (eds.) Global Sport Leaders: a Biographical Analysis of International Sport Management. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 395-415. ISBN 9783319767529 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-76753-6_15)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2018) “The Russian deadpan expert” vs “America’s white hope”: the personal, the national, and the global in the “Cold War” of chess. In: Vonnard, Philippe, Sbetti, Nicola and Quin, Grégory (eds.) Beyond Boycotts: Sport During the Cold War in Europe. Series: Rethinking the Cold War (1). De Gruyter: Berlin ; Boston, pp. 179-194. ISBN 9783110526660 (doi: 10.1515/9783110529098-010)

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2018) Visually playing politics: use of sports as political critique in newspaper cartoons. In: Motrescu-Mayes, Annamaria and Banks, Marcus (eds.) Visual Histories of South Asia. Primus Books, pp. 209-229. ISBN 9789386552440

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2017) A state without a nation? Historicising India's 'conspiracy' against Bengal and its cricketers. In: Hassan, David and Acton, Ciaran (eds.) Sport and Contested Identities: Contemporary Issues and Debates. Series: Routledge research in sport, culture and society (88). Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY, pp. 132-151. ISBN 9781138696686 (doi: 10.4324/9781315523651-8)

Book Reviews

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2020) Hill, Jeffrey. Learie Constantine and Race Relations in Britain and the Empire. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. x+ 240. Index and six illustrations. £85, hb. Journal of Sport History, 47(2), pp. 176-178. (doi: 10.1353/sph.2020.0038)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2018) Book Review: Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Mahatma on the Pitch: Gandhi & Cricket in India. South Asia Research, 38(3), pp. 350-352. (doi: 10.1177/0262728018798989)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2018) Dominic Malcolm, Sport, Medicine and Health: The Medicalization of Sport? (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017), pp. x+212, £105, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-138-82645-8. Medical History, 62(2), pp. 247-248. (doi: 10.1017/mdh.2018.9)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2017) Sport, culture, nation: perspectives from Indian football and South Asian cricket, by Kausik Bandyopadhyay, New Delhi, Sage, 2015,240 pp., ₹ 695 (hbk), ISBN 9789351503026. South Asian History and Culture, 8(3), pp. 390-391. (doi: 10.1080/19472498.2017.1350402)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2016) Koller, Christian and Fabian Brändle. Goal! A Cultural and Social History of Modern Football. Trans. David S. Bachrach. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2015. Pp. 350. $29.95, pb. Journal of Sport History, 43(3), pp. 355-356. (doi: 10.5406/jsporthistory.43.3.0355)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2015) Pataudi: Nawab of cricket. International Journal of the History of Sport, 32(11-12), pp. 1509-1511. (doi: 10.1080/09523367.2015.1058451)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2015) Agovino, Michael. The Soccer Diaries: An American’s Thirty-Year Pursuit of the International Game. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Pp. 312. $26.95 hb. Journal of Sport History, 42(2), pp. 236-237. (doi: 10.5406/jsporthistory.42.2.0236)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2015) Steen, Rob, Jed Novick, and Huw Richards, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Football. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xxx+313. Fifteen figures and one table. £50.00 hb; £17.99 pb. Journal of Sport History, 42(1), pp. 149-150. (doi: 10.5406/jsporthistory.42.1.149)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2015) The great tamasha: cricket, corruption and the turbulent rise of modern India. International Journal of the History of Sport, 32(2), pp. 379-381. (doi: 10.1080/09523367.2014.949053)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2014) Sport, Public Broadcasting, and Cultural Citizenship: Signal Lost? Jay Scherer and David Rowe (eds), Sport, Public Broadcasting, and Cultural Citizenship: Signal Lost?, Routledge, New York, 2014, ISBN 9 7804 1588 6031 (hbk), 322 pp. A$140.00. Media International Australia, 153(1), pp. 170-171. (doi: 10.1177/1329878x1415300133)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2014) South Africa and the global game: football, apartheid and beyond. Soccer and Society, 15(4), pp. 624-627. (doi: 10.1080/14660970.2013.812327)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2013) Moving pictures: rickshaw art of Bangladesh. Contemporary South Asia, 21(4), pp. 472-473. (doi: 10.1080/09584935.2013.856593)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2013) Race, ethnicity and football: persisting debates and emergent issues. Soccer and Society, 14(4), pp. 569-572. (doi: 10.1080/14660970.2013.791574)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2012) The match: football and the BBC, 1937–82. Soccer and Society, 13(1), pp. 130-133. (doi: 10.1080/14660970.2012.646147)[Book Review]

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (2011) Football fans around the world: from supporters to fanatics. Soccer and Society, 12(5), pp. 703-706. (doi: 10.1080/14660970.2011.604181)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (Ed.) (2024) Cricket and Nationhood in the Twenty-First Century: Identity Projects in Uncertain Times. Series: Oxford scholarship online. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780191982576

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Malcolm, Dominic (Eds.) (2023) Cricket in the 21st Century. Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives. Routledge. ISBN 9781032662138

Bandyopadhyay, Kausik and Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (Eds.) (2021) Moments, Metaphors, Memories: Defining Events in the History of Soccer. Routledge: London.

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Hassan, David (Eds.) (2018) Ethical Concerns in Sport Governance. Routledge: London ; New York. ISBN 9780367586720

Bandyopadhyay, Kausik, Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 and Mitra, Shakya (Eds.) (2018) FIFA World Cup and Beyond: Sport, Culture, Media and Governance. Series: Sport in the global society: contemporary perspectives. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY. ISBN 9780815396338

Naha, Souvik ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1010-6883 (Ed.) (2018) Global and Transnational Sport: Ambiguous Borders, Connected Domains. Series: Sport in the global society – contemporary perspectives. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780815396680

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Supervision

  • Ghosh, Rupsha
    TITLE OF MY PROPOSAL: An Aftertaste of Colonialism: Understanding British-Bengali Culinary Relations in Postcolonial Calcutta

Teaching

Undergraduate

Britain, 1770-1914

Britain Since 1914

Honours

The British Empire and India, 1757-1947

Postgraduate

Sport in the Global Economy

Professional activities & recognition

Research fellowships

  • 2019 - 2021: Marie Curie Fellowship (IF-MSCA-EU-H2020)
  • 2013 - 2017: Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship

Editorial boards

  • 2019 - -: Sport in Society (Managing Editor)
  • 2019 - 2025: Sport in History (Associate Editor)
  • 2013 - -: Soccer & Society (Editor)
  • 2019 - -: Asian Journal of Sport History & Culture (Editorial Board Member)

Professional & learned societies

  • 2020 - 2022: Panelist for Lord Aberdare Literary Prize, British Society of Sports History

Selected international presentations

  • 2023: 6th International Conference of Sport for Development and Peace (Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (Keynote Lecture))
  • 2023: Transgressing Boundaries: Migration and Sport (Istanbul Bilgi University)
  • 2023: Taiwan International Conference on Physical Activity and Exercise Science (National Chung Hsing University (Keynote Lecture))
  • 2023: Power Games: Sports and Diplomacy in Global Contexts (Liverpool John Moores University)
  • 2023: History Research Seminar (De Montfort University)
  • 2023: Personal Writing and Textual Practices in the British Empire (University of Leicester)
  • 2022: Sport and Social Justice (Leeds Beckett University (Keynote Panel))
  • 2022: Women in Sports in India: Politics, Nationalism and Media (Loreto College (Keynote Lecture))
  • 2022: British Society of Sports History (De Montfort University)
  • 2022: Sport, Power and Politics (University of Aveiro)
  • 2022: Sports and Societies (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  • 2022: Medical Identities in Global History (University of Oxford)
  • 2019: The Olympics and the Asian Century (Zhejiang Normal University (Keynote Lecture))
  • 2019: Rise Up, Take a Knee: Popular Culture and Protest in Decolonising Societies (Utrecht University)
  • 2019: What’s Sex Got to Do with It? Gender, Sexuality, & Eugenics (Oxford Brookes University)
  • 2019: India and Pakistan: The Formative Phase, 1947-c.1960 (University of London)
  • 2019: British Association for South Asian Studies (Durham University)
  • 2018: Moments, Metaphors, Memories: Defining Events in the History of Soccer (University of Oxford)
  • 2017: Golden Games: Sport and Diplomacy in East Asia and beyond (National University of Singapore)
  • 2017: British Society of Sports History (University of Worcester)

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