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  title info:
    title: Indian Boardgames, Colonial Avatars
    sub title: Transculturation, Colonialism and Boardgames
  name:
    name part: Mukherjee, Souvik
    name part: 1978-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    place:
      place term: DE
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (XI, 145 pages).
  abstract: How did an Indian game meant to teach the process of rebirth change into the childrens race-game, Snakes and Ladders? Why does the Bengali language use Dutch loan-words for the suits of cards? How do the rules of Chess change in India and Europe? The answers to these and other related questions can be obtained after examining in depth the relationship of colonialism to boardgames.Focusing on Indian boardgames and their European versions, this book explores how the British Empire's appropriation of ancient games had a signal effect on identity and culture in the formerly colonized countries of the Global South.
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Indian Boardgames and Their Colonial Journeys: Transcultural Moments -- The Folded LudoLudo and Snakes and LaddersSnakes and Ladders Board: A Transculturation -- Chess and Transculturation in the Colonies and the Metropole -- Cards (and Dice) against Colonialism: Playing Cards and Other 'Sedentary' Games -- Conclusion: The Boardgame Strikes Back -- Index
  target audience: specialized
  note: Souvik Mukherjee.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: Souvik Mukherjee, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, India.
  note: In English.
  subject:
    topic: Board games
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Board games
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Europe
  subject:
    topic: Cultural fusion
    geographic: India
  subject:
    geographic: India
    topic: History
    temporal: British occupation, 1765-1947
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: Boardgames
  subject:
    topic: India
  subject:
    topic: colonialism
  subject:
    topic: transculturation
  subject:
    topic: postcolonialism
  subject:
    topic: Indien
  subject:
    topic: Kolonialismus
  classification: GV1312 .M85 2025
  classification: 794
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Transregional Practices of Power , 6
  identifier: 9783110758627 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 3110758628
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DEGRU
    record creation date: 251206
    record change date: 20260117201745.2
    record identifier: in00005675712
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng