India and the Olympics (Paperback, Reprint)

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.  Epilogue.