Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Nigel a Brassard
Preface
PART I : THE TRIBESMEN
1. Folk Games: From the Silk Road to the Manipuri Valleys
2. An Ancient Pastime Discovered by Western Eyes
PART II : THE ARISTOCRATS
3. The European Journey
4. The British Carry the Flag
5. Polo in India: Conflicts and Harmonies
6. The Beginning of the Internationals
7. Polo Myths: Billiard Ball, Walking Sticks, and All That
8. The British Clubs
9. Fashionable Chic: Polo on the Continent
10. American Polo Comes of Age
11. The Anglo-Argentines: Squires or Gauchos?
12. Olympic Interlude
Between pages 126 and 127 are eight color plates containing 17 photographs
PART III : THE AMATEURS
13. The Mighty Americans
14. Of Lords and Ladies
15. The Game in the Former Dominions
16. The Cup of the Americas
17. The Hallowed Grounds: Hurlingham, Meadow Brook and Palermo
18. Return from War: The Internationals
19. The Rise of Argentina
20. England's Recovery: Gentlemen Players and Hired Assassins
21. Polo in America in the Late Twentieth Century
22. Bits and Pieces, Strokes and Mallets
PART IV : THE PROFESSIONALS
23. Patrons and the Dawn of Professionalism
24. Women's Polo
25. The Game's Thinkers
26. The Evolution of the Rules
27. On Umpiring
28. The Polo Pony: From Tats to Thoroughbreds
29. The State of the Game in the Twenty-First Century
Appendix A: The Code of Rules for the Silchar Polo Club, 1863
Appendix B: The Field, 20 March 1869, Letter to the Editor
Appendix C: The Rules of the Game, as Drafted by Lt. Hartopp
Mess Paper, 1869
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
