Subaltern Sports
Subtitle: Politics and Sport in South Asia (Anthem South Asian Studies)
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: July 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781843311676
Subjects: Social history; Sports & Outdoor Recreation; Sports and state; History; Archaeology / Anthropology; History: World; Indian sub-continent; Anthropology - Cultural; History / Asia; Asia - General; South Asia
First sentence: In the well-known Bhagavad Gita section of India's Mahabharata epic, Krishna elaborates a view of duty and action intended to convince Arjuna that, as a member of the warrior caste (ksatriya), he must overcome all his doubts and take up arms, even against his relatives.