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The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India Book

The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India
The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India, <i>The Wrestler's Body</i> tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While
Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. , The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India has a rating of 4 stars
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The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India, The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. , The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India
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  • The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India
  • Written by author Joseph S. Alter
  • Published by University of California Press, August 1992
  • The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic.
  • The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic.
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Preface
1Search and Research1
2The Akhara: Where Earth Is Turned Into Gold26
3Gurus and Chelas: The Alchemy of Discipleship58
4The Patron and the Wrestler70
5The Discipline of the Wrestler's Body90
6Nag Panchami: Snakes, Sex, and Semen136
7Wrestling Tournaments and the Body's Recreation167
8Hanuman: Shakti, Bhakti, and Brahmacharya198
9The Sannyasi and the Wrestler214
10Utopian Somatics and Nationalist Discourse237
11The Individual Re-Formed256
Appendix: The Nature of Wrestling Nationalism261
Glossary265
Bibliography271
Index295


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