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1. India and the Olympics

   By Boria Majumdar, Nalin Mehta

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   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...

   Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
2. Modern Sport – The Global Obsession

   Edited by Boria Majumdar, Fan Hong

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   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...

   Published October 14th 2009 by Routledge
3. Sport in South Asian Society

   Past and Present

   Edited by Boria Majumdar, J A Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   A detailed study of sports' arrival, spread and advance in colonial and post-colonial South Asia. A selection of articles addresses critical issues of nationalism, communalism, commercialism and gender through the lens of sport. This book makes the point that the social histories of...

   Published October 12th 2009 by Routledge
4. Olympism: The Global Vision

   From Nationalism to Internationalism

   Edited by Boria Majumdar, Sandra Collins

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   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...

   Published February 22nd 2009 by Routledge
5. Football Fans Around the World

   From Supporters to Fanatics

   Edited by Sean Brown, Boria Majumdar

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   This volume investigates the way in which football supporters around the world express themselves as followers of teams, whether they be professional, amateur or national. The diverse geographical and cultural array of contributions to this volume highlights not only the variety of how fans express...

   Published February 22nd 2009 by Routledge
6. Cricket, Race and the 2007 World Cup

   Edited by Boria Majumdar, Jon Gemmell

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   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...

   Published February 19th 2009 by Routledge
7. Cricket in Colonial India 1780 – 1947

   By Boria Majumdar

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   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...

   Published May 1st 2008 by Routledge
8. Olympism: The Global Vision

   From Nationalism to Internationalism

   Edited by Boria Majumdar, Sandra Collins

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   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...

   Published October 25th 2007 by Routledge
9. Cricket, Race and the 2007 World Cup

   Edited by Boria Majumdar, Jon Gemmell

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   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...

   Published August 7th 2007 by Routledge
10. Modern Sport - The Global Obsession

    Edited by Boria Majumdar, Fan Hong

    Series: Sport in the Global Society

    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...

    Published September 17th 2006 by Routledge