| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
India and the Olympics // Boria Majumdar and Nalin Mehta. |
| Author: |
Majumdar, Boria, |
| other author: |
Mehta, Nalin, |
| Published: |
New York :Routledge, : 2009., |
| Description: |
xx, 379 p., [8] p. of plates,[115] :ill. ;24 cm. |
| Notes: |
"First published by Harper Collins Publishers India in 2008"--T.p. verso. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
Olympics - Participation, Indian - 20th century - |
| Subject: |
India - |
| ISBN: |
9780415804974 (hbk.): |