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  • A SOCIAL HISTORY OF INDIAN FOOTBALL
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    A SOCIAL HISTORY OF INDIAN FOOTBALL
    KAUSIK BANDYOPADHYAY / BORIA MAJUMDAR
    A Social History of Indian Football covers the period 1850-2004. It considers soccer as a derivative sport, creatively and imaginatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs - designed to fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations. The book is concerned with the appropriation, assimilation and subversion of sporting ideals in colonial and post-c...

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  • CRICKET IN COLONIAL INDIA 1780 – 1947
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    CRICKET IN COLONIAL INDIA 1780 – 1947
    BORIA MAJUMDAR
    This is an exacting social history of Indian cricket between 1780 and 1947. It considers cricket as a derivative sport, creatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs, fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations. Majumdar argues that cricket was a means to cross class barriers and had a healthy following even outside the aristocracy and upper mi...

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  • OLYMPISM: THE GLOBAL VISION
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    OLYMPISM: THE GLOBAL VISION
    BORIA MAJUMDAR
    The collection starts from the premise that Olympism and the Olympic Games make sense only when they are placed within the broader national, colonial and post colonial contexts and argues that sport not only influences politics and vice-versa, but that the two are inseparable. Sport is not only political; it is politics. It is also culture and art. This collaboration is a first...

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  • MODERN SPORT - THE GLOBAL OBSESSION
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    MODERN SPORT - THE GLOBAL OBSESSION
    BORIA MAJUMDAR
    Sport has become more than a simple physical expression or game- it now pervades all societies at all levels and has become bound up in nationalism, entertainment, patriotism and culture. Now a global obsession, sport has infiltrated into all areas of modern life and despite noble ideals that sport stands above politics, religion, class, gender and ideology, the reality is ofte...

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  • CRICKET, RACE AND THE 2007 WORLD CUP
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    CRICKET, RACE AND THE 2007 WORLD CUP
    BORIA MAJUMDAR
    Cricket has been subject to a number of changes over the last twenty years. We can no longer talk of a sport particular to an out-dated English way of life. Cricket has become global and has to exist within the global environment. Primarily the world game has become commercialised. This collection of essays assesses the developments within major playing nations between the Worl...

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  • INDIA AND THE OLYMPICS
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    INDIA AND THE OLYMPICS
    BORIA MAJUMDAR / NALIN MEHTA
    In most accounts of Olympic history across the world, India's Olympic journey is a mere footnote. This book is a corrective. Drawing on newly available and hitherto unused archival sources, it demonstrates that India was an important strategic outpost in the Olympic movement that started as a global phenomenon at the turn of the twentieth century. Among the questions the author...

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  • LOST HISTORIES OF INDIAN CRICKET
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    LOST HISTORIES OF INDIAN CRICKET
    BORIA MAJUMDAR
    Lost Histories of Indian Cricket studies the personalities and controversies that have shaped Indian cricket over the years and brings to life the intensity surrounding India's national game. It may be true that that cricket today arouses more passions in India than in any other cricket playing country in the world. Yet, when it comes to writing on the history of the game, Indi...

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