Yoga and physical education: Swami Kuvalayananda's nationalist project

Asian Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 20-36

  Alter, Joseph S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Gender; Hindu nationalism; Muscular Christianity; Physical education; Swami Kuvalayananda; Yoga

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548524810     PISSN: 1573420X     EISSN: 15734218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157342107X207191     Document Type: Article

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