Write a short note on gandhijis view on other sports and cricket
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Going by his popular image as a frail man wearing a loincloth and carrying a walking stick, it is difficult to imagine Mahatma Gandhi as an advocate of sports. In fact, he himself dropped hints about his non-athletic past when he said in his autobiography that unless compulsory, he didn’t participate in cricket or football matches in school. But cricket and football helped him attain his social-political goals, both in South Africa and India.
Though Gandhi believed in the importance of sport as a way of creating balance between the mind and the body, he was of the impression that games like cricket, hockey, football and tennis were only for the privileged. He disliked the fact that these games were brought in India by the British and opined that their popularity with the locals displayed a colonial mindset. He also emphasised on the efficacy of local traditional games and farmwork over the imported elitist games like cricket.
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