The Commonwealth Games are Delhi’s biggest sporting event ever. As the promise of hosting them envelops Delhi there are questions that loom large, unasked and ominous: Who will emerge the winner in this contest to present Delhi as a true global city? Will Indian sport gain at all? How much is it costing the person on the street? Who has actually benefited from all the digging and window-dressing? And who has lost livelihoods, dreams, perhaps even lives? This book is the story of the politics of these Games, the money that is being spent and the priorities that have shaped it.
With access to hitherto unused archives, including primary documents from the first-ever British Empire Games in 1930, this book is also the first and only attempt to place Delhi 2010 in perspective within the history of the Commonwealth Games, their meaning and indeed the larger question of why we need a Commonwealth at all. Explaining what all this means for India, it provides a unique understanding of the Delhi Games in its entirety.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Borai Majumdar
Boria Majumdar, a Rhodes scholar and founding trustee of the South Asia Research Foundation, is a senior research fellow at the University of Central Lancashire and an Adjunct Professor, University of South Australia. A consulting Editor with Times Global Broadcasting Company, he has written extensively on the history and politics of sport in India and the world both for the academic and the popular medium. As visiting professor at the University of Toronto, he has taught the history of the Commonwealth Games for over four years now with Professor Bruce Kidd. He will be covering the 2010 Commonwealth Games for Times Now Television.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nalin Mehta
Nalin Mehta, a Commonwealth scholar, is founding Joint Editor of the international journal South Asian History and Culture, and Honorary Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. He is the author of the award-winning India on Television (Asian Publishing Award 2009) and has co-authored the critically acclaimed Olympics: The India Story. His edited books include Television in India and The Changing Face of Cricket. A weekly columnist for Mumbai Mirror, he has over ten years of experience as a journalist, working with several television networks including NDTV, Zee News, and Times Now.
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