TY  - BOOK
AU  - Majumdar,Boria
AU  - Mangan,J.A.
TI  - Sport in South Asian society: past and present 
SN  - 0415359538
AV  - GV653 .S764 2005
U1  - 306.4830954 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Sports
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - South Asia
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : the fall and rise of Indian sports history; Dipesh Chakrabarty --; Prologue : stepping stones across a stream; Boria Majumdar --; Raj and post Raj identities : sport & South Asia : the early cricketing tours : imperial provenance and radical potential; Projit B. Mukharji --; 1911 in retrospect : a revisionist perspective on a famous Indian sporting victory; Kausik Bandyopadhyay --; Imperial tool 'for' nationalist resistance : the 'games ethic' in Indian history; Boria Majumdar --; Imperial and post-imperial congruence : a challenge to ideological simplification; J. A. Mangan and Kausik Bandyopadhyay --; Narrative histories : sport in colonial and post colonial South Asia : 'an inheritance from the British' : the Indian boxing story; Shamya Dasgupta --; 'Legacies, halcyon days and thereafter' : a brief history of Indian tennis; Suvam Pal --; Marginal voices : women's sport in colonial and post colonial South Asia : Bengali girls in sport : a socio-economic study of Kabadi; Soma Basu --; Fleshing out Mandira : hemming in the women's constituency in cricket; Sudeshna Banerjee --; Women in sport : the Parsis and Jews in twentieth-century India; Suparna Bhattacharya --; Lagaan - undertones and overtones : South Asian sport, culture, society : cricket or cricket spectacle? : looking beyond cricket to understand Lagaan; Sharmistha Gooptu --; Bollywood motifs : cricket fiction and fictional cricket; Chandrima Chakraborty --; Cementing ties : sport in South Asian diplomacy : manufacturing unison : Muslims, Hindus and Indians during the India-Pakistan match; Jishnu Dasgupta --; Globalizing patriotism? : some lessons from the cricket World Cup of 2003; Jayanta Sengupta --; To play or not to play : fabricating consent over the Indo-Pak cricket series; Kingshuk Chatterjee --; Cross cutting identities : sport and the South Asian diaspora : spectatorship, fandom, and nationalism in the South Asian diaspora : the 2003 cricket World Cup; Christina P. Davis and Grant P. Upson --; Cricketing fervour and Islamic fervour : marginalisation in the diaspora; Michael Roberts --; Epilogue : '... there is always change'; J. A. Mangan
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