Sport in Contemporary India

Surajit C Mukhopadhyay is Professor and Dean of the School of Social Sciences, Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata, India. He specialises in writing and research in the field of political sociology, qualitative research methods, post-colonial policing and sociological theory. He was a Commonwealth Staff Scholar at Leicester University, UK, and a visiting fellow at Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France, and has lectured in several countries around the world.Lovely Dasgupta is Professor of Law at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, India. She has been one of the leading figures in the establishment of sports law as a taught subject in India and has published on sports law and competition law. She is the only Indian amongst the current members of the International Network of Doping Research, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark.

• 1. Introduction, 2. Post-coloniality and Sporting Action – Contextualising Contemporary Sports in India, 3. Power, Politics and Cricket: Mapping the Game’s Rise in India and the World, 4. Monetisation of Indian Cricket: The Market Takes Over, 5. Heteronormativity and Female Sport Bodies: A Critique of Sports Advertisement in India, 6. Regulating Sporting Bodies: Reviewing the Indian Response to Body Controversy, 7. Fantasy Gaming in India: An Introspective Study, 8. Arbitrating Sports: Mapping the Indian Experience, 9. Sexual Harassment Within Sports in India: A Critique, 10. Doping in Sports in India: Mapping the Story So Far, 11. Conclusion