Acknowledgements; Contributors to this Volume; Introduction; 1. ‘Kalarippayattu is Eighty Percent Mental and Only the Remainder is Physical’: Power, Agency and Self in a South Asian Martial Art; 2. Empowering Yourself: Sport, Sexuality and Autoeroticism in North Indian Jori Swinging; 3. Indigenous Polo in Northern Pakistan: Game and Power on the Periphery; 4. ‘The Moral that can be Safely Drawn from the Hindus’ Magnificent Victory’: Cricket, Caste and the Palwankar Brothers; 5. The Peasants are Revolting: Race, Culture and Ownership in Cricket; 6. The Social History of the Royal Calcutta Golf Club, 1829-2003; 7. Warrior Goddess Versus Bipedal Cow: Sport, Space, Performance and Planning in an Indian City; 8. ‘Nupilal’: Women’s War, Football and the History of Modern Manipur; 9. ‘Playing for the Tibetan People’: Football and History in the High Himalaysia; 10. Community, Identity and Sport: Anglo-Indians in Colonial and Postcolonial India; Notes; Bibliography

James H. Mills teaches Indian history at Strathclyde University, Glasgow. He is the author of ‘Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade and Prohibition 1800–1928’ (OUP, 2003) and ‘Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism: The ‘Native-Only’ Lunatic Asylums of British India, 1857–1900′ (Palgrave, 2000). He has co-edited ‘Confronting the Body: The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Post-Colonial India’ (Anthem Press, 2004).