A MOVEMENT LED by nationalist elites and princes, the early story of Indian Olympism is also the story of a global league of upper-class elites, connected through patronage networks in Europe, who passionately pushed the Olympic ideal. Until the 1920s, the Olympics were largely a Eurocentric enterprise, but India’s embrace of Olympism in the 1920s … Continue reading "The Nation at Play"

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