Expert Equestrians: How the Game of Polo Forged Masculinities in British India and the British Metropole, 1862–1914.
Polo is a team sport played on horseback hitting a small ball through the opposing team's goal. In today's form, it originated in Northern India and is an example of colonial encounter and the formation of colonial masculinities. This paper follows Mrinalini Sinha's findings that see power at the ce...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 284 - 303 |
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