Nation at Play : : A History of Sport in India / / Ronojoy Sen.
Reaching as far back as ancient times, Ronojoy Sen pairs a novel history of India's engagement with sport and a probing analysis of its cultural and political development under monarchy and colonialism, and as an independent nation. Some sports that originated in India have fallen out of favor,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary Asia in the World
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 24 b&w photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Down the Ages: Sport in Ancient and Medieval India
- 2 . Empire of Sport: The Early British Impact on Recreation
- 3 . White Man’s Burden: Teachers, Missionaries, and Administrators
- 4 . Players and Patrons
- 5 . The Empire Strikes Back
- 6 . Politics on the Maidan
- 7 . The Early Olympics
- 8 . Lords of the Ring
- 9 . Freedom Games
- 10 . Domestic Sports
- 11 . 1971 and After
- 12 . Life Beyond Cricket
- Notes
- Index