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The politics of sport in South Asia/ edited by Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty - Oxon: Routledge, 2010. - 195 p. ill. 23 cm.

1. Fields of Power;

2. Physical Education, Sport and the Intersection and Articulation of 'Modernities': The Hanuman Vyayam Prasarak Mandal;

3. The Hindu ascetic as fitness instructor: Reviving faith in yoga;

4. The Centrality of Cricket in Indo-Australian relations: India, Australia and the 'Cricket Imaginary';

5. Feel Good, Goodwill and India's Friendship Tour of Pakistan, 2004: Cricket, Politics and Diplomacy in Twenty-First-Century India.

6. The Golden Years of Indian Hockey: 'We Climb the Victory Stand'

7. 'The Wood Magic': Cricket in India --
A Postcolonial Benediction;

8. The Culture and Politics of Local Sporting Heroes in Late Colonial Bengal and Princely Orissa: The Case of Santimoy Pati;

9. Fair's Unfair: Simulations of Consumption and Career in Indian Advertising;

10. The great Indian Willow Trick: Cricket, nationalism and India's TV news revolution, 1998-2005;

11. Reading cricket fiction in the times of Hindu nationalism and farmer suicides: Fallacies of textual interpretation.

ISBN: 0415371686

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sports and state
Sports--Political aspects
South Asia

Dewey Class. No.: 320.357954 / CHA/T