Off-duty British army officers playing cricket on the parade ground in Kohat in Pakistan, c. 1862
© Pump Park Vintage Photography/Alamy Stock Photo
The colonial and cultural diffusion of sport in the nineteenth-century British Empire is an important topic for all the major exam boards.
From around 1850, sport began to play an important role in the development and maintenance of the British Empire. It became a vehicle through which British values were transmitted to local people throughout the Empire, and in particular the local elite, through cultural diffusion and imperialism.
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