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Sport in South Asian Society: Past and Present book cover

1st Edition

Sport in South Asian Society Past and Present

Edited By Boria Majumdar, J.A. Mangan Copyright 2005
356 Pages
by Routledge

360 Pages
by Routledge

368 Pages
by Routledge
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A detailed study of sports' arrival, spread and advance in colonial and post-colonial South Asia. A selection of articles addresses critical issues of nationalism, communalism, commercialism and gender through the lens of sport. This book makes the point that the social histories of South Asian sport cannot be understood by simply looking at the history of the game in one province or... Read more
Part 1. Raj and Post Raj Identities: Sport and South Asia  Part 2. Narrative Histories: Sport in Colonial and Post Colonial South Asia  Part 3. Marginal Voices: Women's Sport in Colonial and Post Colonial South Asia  Part 4. Lagaan - Undertones and Overtones: South Asian Sport, Culture, Society  Part 5. Cementing Ties: Sport in South Asian Diplomacy  Part 6. Cross Cutting Identities: Sport and the South Asian Diaspora

Biography

Boria Majumdar is a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at La Trobe University, Australia. He is also Deputy Executive Academic Editor of The International Journal of the History of Sport, Executive Academic Editor of Sport in Society and Co-Editor of the Sport in the Global Society series.

Professor J.A. Mangan is former Director of the International Research Centre for Sport, Socialisation and Society at the University of Strathclyde, UK. He was founding Chairman of the British Society of Sports History and founding editor of The International Journal of the History of Sport. He is author of the acclaimed Athleticism and the Victorian and Edwardian Public School and has written and lectured extensively on sport, culture and society.

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