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Cricket as a colonial weapon

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Dr Souvik Naha reveals how the Victorians used cricket to export “British virtues” across the empire For 19th-century imperialists, cricket wasn’t just a game, it was a means of exporting “British virtues” across the empire. Dr Souvik Naha tells Spencer Mizen about the sport’s great “civilising mission”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

1:34.4

I'm Ellie Corthorne.

1:38.3

From Chile to Khartoum, Shanghai to Sydney.

1:42.8

Wherever British colonists ventured in the 18th and 19th century,

1:44.8

cricket was sure to follow.

1:51.1

And it wasn't long before eager imperialists were viewing the game as a way to, in their eyes,

1:55.3

educate native populations in the virtues of Britishness.

2:02.6

As the T20 World Cup heads towards its final stages, the historian Suvick Nahar joined our production editor,

2:08.1

Spentemizun, to talk about cricket's so-called civilising mission in the Age of Empire.

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