Download e-book for iPad: Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India (Contemporary by Ronojoy Sen

By Ronojoy Sen

ISBN-10: 0231164904

ISBN-13: 9780231164900

Reaching way back to precedent days, Ronojoy Sen pairs a unique historical past of India’s engagement with game and a probing research of its cultural and political improvement below monarchy and colonialism, and as an self reliant country. a few activities that originated in India have fallen out of fashion, whereas others, similar to cricket, were followed and made thoroughly India’s personal. Sen’s leading edge undertaking casts game much less as a normal expression of human pageant than as an instructive perform reflecting a distinct play with energy, morality, aesthetics, id, and funds. Sen follows the transformation of recreation from an elite, kingly hobby to a countrywide obsession tied to colonialism, nationalism, and loose industry liberalization. He will pay precise cognizance to 2 sleek phenomena: the dominance of cricket within the Indian realization and the power failure of a billion-strong kingdom to compete effectively in overseas wearing competitions, corresponding to the Olympics. Innovatively incorporating examples from renowned media and different unconventional resources, Sen not just captures the political nature of game in India but in addition unearths the styles of patronage, clientage, and institutionalization that experience certain this various country jointly for centuries.

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