RETRACTED ARTICLE: The Man Arrives: Breaking Off the Notion of Effeminacy in Colonial Bengal

We, the Editors and Publisher of The International Journal of the History of Sport, have retracted the following article:

Amitava Chatterjee (2015), The Man Arrives: Breaking Off the Notion of Effeminacy in Colonial Bengal. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 32:3, pages 409–421.

The reason for retraction is significant overlap with the following previously published sources, which include the author’s own work, without appropriate acknowledgement:

Amitava Chatterjee (2015), From courtyard sport to competitive sport: evolution of wrestling in colonial Bengal. Sport in Society; 18:1; pages 1–16.

Boria Majumdar (2003), The Vernacular in Sport History. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 20:1; pages 107–125.

We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the Committee on Publishing Ethics (COPE) guidelines on retractions. The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as ‘Retracted’.