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29%OFFRonojoy Sen - Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India - 9780231164900 - V9780231164900
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Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India

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Description for Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India Hardback. Series: Contemporary Asia in the World. Num Pages: 400 pages, 24 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBTB; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 35. Weight in Grams: 686.
Reaching as far back as ancient times, Ronojoy Sen pairs a novel history of India's engagement with sport and a probing analysis of its cultural and political development under monarchy and colonialism, and as an independent nation. Some sports that originated in India have fallen out of favor, while others, such as cricket, have been adopted and made wholly India's own. Sen's innovative project casts sport less as a natural expression of human competition than as an instructive practice reflecting a unique play with power, morality, aesthetics, identity, and money. Sen follows the transformation of sport from an elite, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Contemporary Asia in the World
Condition
New
Weight
686g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231164900
SKU
V9780231164900
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About Ronojoy Sen
Ronojoy Sen is senior research fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies and Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He has worked for over a decade with leading Indian newspapers, most recently as an editor for The Times of India. He earned a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago and read history at Presidency College, ... Read more

Reviews for Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India
Ronojoy Sen has produced a fascinating, rich, and thoroughly engaging history of sport in India. He manages to paint at once with powerful, evocative, and very convincing broad strokes and with the finely gauged brush of an ethno-historian concerned as much with the intricacies and nuances of embodied experience as with quirky personalities and the odd politics of everyday life. ... Read more

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