About the Book: Sports Studies in India: Expanding the Field
Sports Studies in India, as a part of The Oxford India Studies in Contemporary
Society, emerges from a sociological curiosity about sporting experience in
terms of participation in sports as well as its theorization in scholarship.
This volume aims to forge interest in the field of sports studies and offers a
platform for a wide range of studies on sports, employing a variety of
approaches, perspectives, and methodologies. The contributions in this volume
sport as a microcosm of society, which affords an opportunity to understand the
complex nexus of society-state-media. They also examine sport within a