India and the Olympics

by Boria Majumdar and 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 authors answer are: When and how did the Olympic ideology take root in India?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415655110
• ISBN13: 9780415655118
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.0"