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India and the Olympics
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India and the Olympics

Boria Majumdar

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"First published by Harper Collins Publishers India in 2008"--T.p. verso.

Contents

Games of self-respect : a colony at the Olympics
'Everyone wants a bite of the cherry' : the struggle for control of Olympic sports in India
The golden years : 'we climb the victory stand'
Hitler's games : Captain Dhyan Chand and Indian nationalism in the Third Reich
The 'national' game : hockey in the life of independent India
'The fall of Rome' : the fall and decline of Indian hockey
'The big brother of Asia' : Nehruvian India, sport diplomacy and a new order
Appu on television : the 1982 Asiad and the creation of a new Indian public
When Olympic sports lost out : cricket, television and globalization in India
The army, Indian-ness and sport : the nation in the Olympic ideal
Torchbearers of a billion : India at the games.

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