01461nam a2200157Ia 4500020001500000040000800015082002200023245007800045260002900123300002500152505102900177650002101206650003001227650001501257700003101272 a0415371686 cCUS a320.357954bCHA/T 4aThe politics of sport in South Asia/cedited by Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty aOxon:bRoutledge,c2010. a195 p.bill.c23 cm. a1. 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. aSports and state aSports--Political aspects aSouth Asia aChakraborty, Subhas Ranjan