TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chakrabarty,Subhas Ranjan
AU  - Chakrabarti,Shantanu
AU  - Chatterjee,Kingshuk
TI  - The politics of sport in South Asia
T2  - Sport in the global society
SN  - 0415371686
U1  - 306.4830954 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon.
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Sports and state
KW  - South Asia
KW  - Sports
KW  - Political aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Introduction: Fields of Power; Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Shantanu Chakraborti and Kingshuk Chatterjee --; 2; Physical Education, Sport and the Intersection and Articulation of 'Modernities': The Hanuman Vyayam Prasarak Mandal; Joseph S. Alter --; 3; The Hindu Ascetic as Fitness Instructor: Reviving Faith in Yoga; Chandrima Chakraborty --; 4; The Centrality of Cricket in Indo-Australian Relations: India, Australia and the 'Cricket Imaginary'; Brian Stoddart --; 5; Feel Good, Goodwill and India's Friendship Tour of Pakistan, 2004: Cricket, Politics and Diplomacy in Twenty-First-Century India; Kausik Bandyopadhyay --; 6; The Golden Years of Indian Hockey: 'We Climb the Victory Stand'; Boria Majumdar --; 7; 'The Wood Magic': Cricket in India - A Postcolonial Benediction; Somshankar Ray --; 8; The Culture and Politics of Local Sporting Heroes in Late Colonial Bengal and Princely Orissa: The Case of Santimoy Pati; Projit B. Mukharji --; 9; Fair's Unfair: Simulations of Consumption and Career in Indian Advertising; Anisha Datta --; 10; The Great Indian Willow Trick: Cricket, Nationalism and India's TV News Revolution, 1998-2005; Nalin Mehta --; 11; Reading Cricket Fiction in the Times of Hindu Nationalism and Farmer Suicides: Fallacies of Textual Interpretation; Nissim Mannathukkaren --; 12; Virtually There: Cricket, Community, and Commerce on the Internet; Sanjay Joshi
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