Majumdar, Boria,  1976- <br/><br/>
India and the Olympics  [electronic resource] / 
Boria Majumdar and Nalin Mehta. 
 - New York :  Routledge,  2009. 
 - xiii, 277 p., [7] pages of plates :  ill. 
 - Routledge research in sport, culture and society ;  2 .
 - Routledge research in sport, culture and society ;  2. .
<br/><br/> "First published by HarperCollins Publishers India in 2008"--T.p. verso. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><br/>Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780203872789 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Olympics--Participation, Indian--History--20th century.<br/>Sports and state--India.<br/>Nationalism--India.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>India--History--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.