Nation at play: a history of sport in india

Table of 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: Indian Princes and Sports -...

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1. Verfasser: Sen, Ronojoy (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Columbia University Press [2015]
Schriftenreihe:Contemporary Asia in the World
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Zusammenfassung:Table of 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: Indian Princes and Sports -- 5. The Empire Strikes Back: The 1911 IFA Shield and Football in Calcutta -- 6. Politics on the Maidan: Sport, Communalism, and Nationalism -- 7. The Early Olympics: India's Hockey Triumphs -- 8. Lords of the Ring: Tales of Wrestlers and Boxers -- 9. Freedom Games: The First Two Decades of Independence
10. Domestic Sports: State, Club, Office, and Regiment (1947-1970) -- 11. 1971 and After: The Religion Called Cricket -- 12. Life Beyond Cricket -- Notes -- Index
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, while others, such as cricket, have been adopted and made wholly India's own. Sen's innovative project casts sport less as a natural expression of human competition than as an instructive practice reflecting a unique play with power, morality, aesthetics, identity, and money. Sen follows the transformat
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9780231539937

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