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1. Gujarat Beyond Gandhi

   Identity, Society and Conflict

   Edited by Nalin Mehta, Mona G. Mehta

   Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

   The birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi and the land that produced Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, Gujarat has been at the centre-stage of South Asia’s political iconography for more than a century. As Gujarat, created as a separate state in 1960, celebrates its golden jubilee this...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
2. 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
3. Gujarat Beyond Gandhi

   Identity, Society and Conflict

   Edited by Nalin Mehta, Mona G. Mehta

   Series: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

   The birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi and the land that produced Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, Gujarat has been at the centre-stage of South Asia’s political iconography for more than a century. As Gujarat, created as a separate state in 1960, celebrates its golden jubilee this...

   Published May 5th 2011 by Routledge
4. The Changing Face of Cricket

   From Imperial to Global Game

   Edited by Dominic Malcolm, Jon Gemmell, Nalin Mehta

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   For cricket enthusiasts there is nothing to match the meaningful contests and excitement generated by the game’s subtle shifts in play. Conversely, huge swathes of the world’s population find cricket the most obscure and bafflingly impenetrable of sports. The Changing Face of Cricket attempts to...

   Published March 24th 2010 by Routledge
5. Television in India

   Satellites, Politics and Cultural Change

   Edited by Nalin Mehta

   Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

   This book examines the development of television in India since the early 1990s, and its implications for Indian society more widely. Until 1991, India possessed only a single state-owned television channel, but since then there has been a rapid expansion in independent satellite channels which...

   Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge