India and the Olympics [electronic resource] / Boria Majumdar and Nalin Mehta.

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Majumdar, Boria, 1976-

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Series: Routledge research in sport, culture and society ; 2.Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2009.Description: xiii, 277 p., [7] pages of plates : illISBN:

9780203872789

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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