Sport in South Asian society : past and present /
Sport in South Asian society : past and present /
edited by Boria Majumdar and J.A. Mangan.
- 344 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the fall and rise of Indian sports history / Prologue : stepping stones across a stream / Raj and post Raj identities : sport & South Asia : the early cricketing tours : imperial provenance and radical potential / 1911 in retrospect : a revisionist perspective on a famous Indian sporting victory / Imperial tool 'for' nationalist resistance : the 'games ethic' in Indian history / Imperial and post-imperial congruence : a challenge to ideological simplification / Narrative histories : sport in colonial and post colonial South Asia : 'an inheritance from the British' : the Indian boxing story / 'Legacies, halcyon days and thereafter' : a brief history of Indian tennis / Marginal voices : women's sport in colonial and post colonial South Asia : Bengali girls in sport : a socio-economic study of Kabadi / Fleshing out Mandira : hemming in the women's constituency in cricket / Women in sport : the Parsis and Jews in twentieth-century India / Lagaan - undertones and overtones : South Asian sport, culture, society : cricket or cricket spectacle? : looking beyond cricket to understand Lagaan / Bollywood motifs : cricket fiction and fictional cricket / Cementing ties : sport in South Asian diplomacy : manufacturing unison : Muslims, Hindus and Indians during the India-Pakistan match / Globalizing patriotism? : some lessons from the cricket World Cup of 2003 / To play or not to play : fabricating consent over the Indo-Pak cricket series / Cross cutting identities : sport and the South Asian diaspora : spectatorship, fandom, and nationalism in the South Asian diaspora : the 2003 cricket World Cup / Cricketing fervour and Islamic fervour : marginalisation in the diaspora / Epilogue : '... there is always change' / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Boria Majumdar -- Projit B. Mukharji -- Kausik Bandyopadhyay -- Boria Majumdar -- J. A. Mangan and Kausik Bandyopadhyay -- Shamya Dasgupta -- Suvam Pal -- Soma Basu -- Sudeshna Banerjee -- Suparna Bhattacharya -- Sharmistha Gooptu -- Chandrima Chakraborty -- Jishnu Dasgupta -- Jayanta Sengupta -- Kingshuk Chatterjee -- Christina P. Davis and Grant P. Upson -- Michael Roberts -- J. A. Mangan.
0415359538 9780415359535
Sports--Social aspects--South Asia
GV653 / .S764 2005
306.4830954
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the fall and rise of Indian sports history / Prologue : stepping stones across a stream / Raj and post Raj identities : sport & South Asia : the early cricketing tours : imperial provenance and radical potential / 1911 in retrospect : a revisionist perspective on a famous Indian sporting victory / Imperial tool 'for' nationalist resistance : the 'games ethic' in Indian history / Imperial and post-imperial congruence : a challenge to ideological simplification / Narrative histories : sport in colonial and post colonial South Asia : 'an inheritance from the British' : the Indian boxing story / 'Legacies, halcyon days and thereafter' : a brief history of Indian tennis / Marginal voices : women's sport in colonial and post colonial South Asia : Bengali girls in sport : a socio-economic study of Kabadi / Fleshing out Mandira : hemming in the women's constituency in cricket / Women in sport : the Parsis and Jews in twentieth-century India / Lagaan - undertones and overtones : South Asian sport, culture, society : cricket or cricket spectacle? : looking beyond cricket to understand Lagaan / Bollywood motifs : cricket fiction and fictional cricket / Cementing ties : sport in South Asian diplomacy : manufacturing unison : Muslims, Hindus and Indians during the India-Pakistan match / Globalizing patriotism? : some lessons from the cricket World Cup of 2003 / To play or not to play : fabricating consent over the Indo-Pak cricket series / Cross cutting identities : sport and the South Asian diaspora : spectatorship, fandom, and nationalism in the South Asian diaspora : the 2003 cricket World Cup / Cricketing fervour and Islamic fervour : marginalisation in the diaspora / Epilogue : '... there is always change' / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Boria Majumdar -- Projit B. Mukharji -- Kausik Bandyopadhyay -- Boria Majumdar -- J. A. Mangan and Kausik Bandyopadhyay -- Shamya Dasgupta -- Suvam Pal -- Soma Basu -- Sudeshna Banerjee -- Suparna Bhattacharya -- Sharmistha Gooptu -- Chandrima Chakraborty -- Jishnu Dasgupta -- Jayanta Sengupta -- Kingshuk Chatterjee -- Christina P. Davis and Grant P. Upson -- Michael Roberts -- J. A. Mangan.
0415359538 9780415359535
Sports--Social aspects--South Asia
GV653 / .S764 2005
306.4830954