
Games We Play
Sports in South Asia
OUP India (Publisher)
Published on 14. October 2020
Book
Hardback
364 pages
978-0-19-012681-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book looks broadly at the evolution of sport and play in India and South Asia, those that enjoy mass popularity as well as those that are marginal, situating them in the region's history, society and economy. It is a valuable addition to the study of sports in South Asia, which remains underdeveloped, with a significant bias towards cricket. Avoiding personality-based narratives, focusing only on successful sportspersons, this volume looks at the different sports played and watched in South Asia: from popular ones such as hockey, football, and badminton, to more local ones such as boat racing in Kerala.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
489 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-012681-0 (9780190126810)
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Persons
Ronojoy Sen is a Senior Research Fellow at ISAS & ARI, National University of Singapore. He has worked for several years at The Times of India, last serving as a senior assistant editor on the editorial page. He has wide-ranging interests from politics to books to sport. He is the author of the forthcoming Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India (Penguin) and Articles of Faith: Religion, Secularism and the Indian Supreme Court (OUP)
Omita Goyal is presently Chief Editor of the IIC Quarterly, the Journal of the India International Centre. She started her career in the voluntary sector with the Indian Social Institute, New Delhi. Shortly thereafter she moved into academic publishing where she has spent over 27 years. She worked at SAGE Publications India Pvt Limited for 20 years, leaving as General Manager. Omita took time off to work as a freelance editor for SAGE and other institutions such as The World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP, Voluntary Health Association of India, Centre for Women's
Development Studies, WHO, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague and TERI.
Omita Goyal is presently Chief Editor of the IIC Quarterly, the Journal of the India International Centre. She started her career in the voluntary sector with the Indian Social Institute, New Delhi. Shortly thereafter she moved into academic publishing where she has spent over 27 years. She worked at SAGE Publications India Pvt Limited for 20 years, leaving as General Manager. Omita took time off to work as a freelance editor for SAGE and other institutions such as The World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP, Voluntary Health Association of India, Centre for Women's
Development Studies, WHO, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague and TERI.
Editor
Games We Play: Sports in South AsiaGames We Play: Sports in South Asia, Institute of South Asian Studies and the South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore
Games We Play: Sports in South AsiaGames We Play: Sports in South Asia, India International Centre Quarterly
Content
- Introduction: The Landscape of Sport in South Asia
- DEVELOPMENT OF CRICKET
- 1. The Mercurials: The Nature of Pakistani Cricket
- 2. Cricket in Bangladesh
- 3. The Journey of Indian Women's Cricket from the 1970s
- 4. Indian Premier League: The Great Indian Story
- NATIONALISM, COMMUNALISM, RACE, CLASS and gender
- 5. Innocence and Indian Cricket
- 6. Cricket in Abstemious Times
- 7. Sports, Radio and Memory: Looking Back at the 1970s
- 8. When Politics Ran Riot at Eden Gardens
- 9. 'Indians Make us Angry!': Australian Perceptions of Touring Indian Cricket Teams, 1947-2017
- 10. India's Sporting Frontier: Race, Integration and Discontent in the North-east
- 11. Reinforcing Difference: The History of Women's Involvement in Physical Activity in India
- 12. Focus Sport
- 1. ART ICLE S
- BEYOND CRICKET
- 13. The Decline of Hockey in Pakistan
- 14. A Story of Two Different Worlds: Indian Hockey's Glory Run and the Unending Struggle
- 15. The Future of Indian Football
- 16. Football in Post-Independence Bangladesh
- 17. India's Shuttle Story: Breaking through Barriers to Take Flight
- 18. A Well-kept Secret: The History of Rugby in Sri Lanka
- ANCIENT PURSUITS AND MODERNITY
- 19. The Great Gama and his Legacy
- 20. Wrestling with the History of Yoga as Sport in Modern India
- 21. Bodybuilding in India: Bollywood Bodies and Middle-class Lifestyles
- 22. Racing on Water: A Short History of Vallam Kali in Kerala
- SPORTS ADMINISTRATION
- 23. Guru Dutt Sondhi: Indian IOC Member and Visionary of Asian Integration through Sport
- 24. See You in Court: The Legal Challenge Against India's Sports Bosses
- SPORT IN FILM AND LITERATURE
- 25. Sport in Indian Film
- 26. 'I Won't Let You Down'