Winning medals, trophies and championships at international level is not merely meant for making headlines of media, but it reflects the total personality of citizens. Looking at the present scenario of games and sports in the country with a population of more than 120 billion, we find that we are lagging behind in terms of medals tally at the global sporting events. A common feeling among us is that it is due to government policies, lack of financial support, poor sports facilities and infrastructure. Whereas in other countries leading in sports, sports are a social phenomenon a way of healthy living and are integral part of sociology of leisure, it is not so in India. First Prime Minister of India Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru once said, “To awaken the people, it is the woman who must be awakened. Once she is on the move the family moves, the village moves, the nation moves”
There has been considerable interest in recent years in studies related to women but little attention has been paid to the role of women in sports as an area of research, though there prevails a mass of divergent observations and judgments on the subject of women’s participation in games and sports. This book is an attempts to identifies all those factors and fictions prevailing in the world of women sport which impact participation of women in games and sports. Given the fact that the sociological characteristics of women all over India are the same and women players everywhere face almost the same sort of problems the findings of the book have a much wider application and the suggestions can be successfully implemented in all parts of the country.
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