Chapter
Chapter 1. 'Kalarippayattu is Eighty Percent Mental and Only the Remainder is Physical': Power, Agency and Self in a South Asian Martial Art, by Philip Zarrilli
History and Kalarippayattu Tradition
Power and Agency in Classical Contests
The Kalarippayattu System in the Ethnographic Present
The Actualization of Power (sakti)
The Fruits of Practice: Kalarippayattu and the Ayurvedic Paradigm
Conclusion: Bodily Practice, Morality and Crafting the 'Self'
Chapter 2. Empowering Yourself: Sport, Sexuality and Autoeroticism in North Indian 'Jori' Swinging, by Joseph S. Alter
The Gymnasium, Jori-Clubs, Sexuality and Culture
Jori-Swinging as Intersexual Autoerotics
Chapter 3. Indigenous Polo in Northern Pakistan: Game and Power on the Periphery, by Peter Parkes
The Game of Kings, and of Colonial Officers
The Colonial and Postcolonial Game
Shandur: the Post-Modern Game?
Chapter 4. 'The Moral that can be Safely Drwan from the Hindus' Magnificent Victory': Cricket, Caste and the Palwankar Brothers, by Ramachandra Guha
Cricket, Caste and Colonialism in Bombay
Education, England, the Carnival and Captaincy
From Player to Politician
Chapter 5. The Peasants are Revolting: Race, Culture and Ownership in Cricket, by Satadru Sen
Introduction: Centres and Subjects
Contesting the Postcolonial Centre
Chapter 6. The Social History of the Royal Calcutta Golf Club, 1829-2003, by Paul Dimeo
Chapter 7. Warrior Goddess Versus Bipedal Cow: Sport, Space, Performance and Planning in an Indian City, by James Heitzman and Smriti Srinivas
Introduction: Of Cities and Spectacles
The Emergence of the Tripartite Urban Complex
The Goddess and her Wrestler-Sons
The National Games and the Re-definition of the Metropolis
The 'Scam of the Century'
The Ritualization of Spectacle
Athletics, Audiences and Contests
Conclusion: Performing the Urban, Contructing an Armature
Chapter 8. 'Nupilal': Women's War, Football and the History of Modern Manipur, by James H. Mills
Women and Power in Manipur
History and Sport in Manipur
Chapter 9. 'Playing for the Tibetan People': Football and History in the High Himalayas
Football, the State and the Stateless in the Modern High Himalayas
Football and History in Tibet
Football and Modenity in Bhutan
Chapter 10. Community, Identity and Sport: Anglo-Indians in Colonial and Postcolonial India, by Megan S. Mills
Hockey, India and the Global Sports Stage
From Boxing to Billiards in the Colonial and Postcolonial World
Subaltern Sports
：Politics and Sport in South Asia
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