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Index
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Prologue
1. Games of Self-Respect: A Colony at the Olympics
2. ‘Everyone Wants a Bite of the Cherry’: The Struggle for Control of Olympic Sports in India
3. The Golden Years: ‘We Climb the Victory Stand’
4. Hitler’s Games: Captain Dhyan Chand and Indian Nationalism in the Third Reich
5. The ‘National’ Game: Hockey in the Life of Independent India
6. ‘The Fall of Rome’: The Fall and Decline of Indian Hockey
7. ‘The Big Brother of Asia’: Nehruvian India, Sport Diplomacy and a New Order
8. Appu on Television: The 1982 Asiad and the Creation of a New Indian Public
9. When Olympic Sports Lost Out: Cricket, Television and Globalization in India
10. The Army, Indian-ness and Sport: The Nation in the Olympic Ideal
11. Torchbearers of a Billion: India at the Games
12. Indian Sport on the Eve of London 2012: Will the Turnaround Finally Happen? (New for the Second Edition)
Epilogue
Postscript
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
Appendix
Praise for the Book
Copyright Page
Endnotes
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