TY - BOOK AU - Chakraborty, Subhas Ranjan TI - The politics of sport in South Asia SN - 0415371686 U1 - 320.357954 PY - 2010/// CY - Oxon PB - Routledge KW - Sports and state KW - Sports--Political aspects KW - South Asia N1 - 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 ER -