Sport, celebrity and popular culture Sachin Tendulkar, cricket and Indian nationalisms

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Nalapat, Abilash ^a   Parker, Andrew ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Warwick ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cricket; Hindutva; Indian nationalisms; Sporting celebrity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646695011     PISSN: 10126902     EISSN: 14617218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1012690205065750     Document Type: Article

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