Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India (Contemporary Asia in the World) PDF, ePub eBook Kindle
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Book Title: Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India (Contemporary Asia in the World)
Book Author: Ronojoy Sen
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- Publisher : Columbia University Press; Illustrated edition (October 27, 2015)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 400 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0231164904
- ISBN-13 : 978-0231164900
- Item Weight : 1.55 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.9 x 1.3 x 9.1 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,858,400 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- Customer Reviews: 8 ratings
Review
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. All of this adds up to a book that fully captures the imagination to generate deep and often unexpected insight on the serious business of play in modern India. -- Joseph S. Alter, Yale-NUS College, author of The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India
His ambitious book examines Indian sports in a largely chronological manner and does not duck the more awkward questions, such as the perceived athletic limitations of Indians. The narrative has an attractive sweep to it, starting with the place of sports and martial competition in Hindu epics such as the "Mahabharata" and the "Ramayana." ― Wall Street Journal
Rich in detail and nuanced in terms of analysis.... [Ronojoy Sen] is to be praised for adding to the understanding of sport in India by looking at how it intersects with culture and politics, and for using sport to provide insights about Indian history and society. ― Choice
Sen is to be applauded for writing such an ambitious book, enriching our understanding of the history of sport in India. ― Journal of Sport History
Sen’s history is indeed a welcome
contribution to a field of study that has been unduly dismissed, in some
cases as a result of the same biases I myself had before this review. It turns
out there is actually a great deal to learn from a book about Indian sports. -- Aaron Miller, California State University, East Bay ― Pacific Affairs
This book is important for informed fans of sports, scholars of South Asian cultures and readers interested in understanding contemporary India. ― South Asia Research
A significant addition to the emerging field of sports studies in India. ― Journal of Global South Studies
His ambitious book examines Indian sports in a largely chronological manner and does not duck the more awkward questions, such as the perceived athletic limitations of Indians. The narrative has an attractive sweep to it, starting with the place of sports and martial competition in Hindu epics such as the "Mahabharata" and the "Ramayana." ― Wall Street Journal
Rich in detail and nuanced in terms of analysis.... [Ronojoy Sen] is to be praised for adding to the understanding of sport in India by looking at how it intersects with culture and politics, and for using sport to provide insights about Indian history and society. ― Choice
Sen is to be applauded for writing such an ambitious book, enriching our understanding of the history of sport in India. ― Journal of Sport History
Sen’s history is indeed a welcome
contribution to a field of study that has been unduly dismissed, in some
cases as a result of the same biases I myself had before this review. It turns
out there is actually a great deal to learn from a book about Indian sports. -- Aaron Miller, California State University, East Bay ― Pacific Affairs
This book is important for informed fans of sports, scholars of South Asian cultures and readers interested in understanding contemporary India. ― South Asia Research
A significant addition to the emerging field of sports studies in India. ― Journal of Global South Studies
About the Author
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, Calcutta. He is also the author of Articles of Faith: Religion, Secularism, and the Indian Supreme Court.
