The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India

The Wrestler's Body

Identity and Ideology in North India

Joseph S. Alter

Suggested citation:
Alter, Joseph S. The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6n39p104/

Note on Translation
Preface

1. Search and Research
2. The Akhara: Where Earth Is Turned Into Gold
3. Gurus and Chelas: The Alchemy of Discipleship
4. The Patron and the Wrestler
5. The Discipline of the Wrestler’s Body
6. Nag Panchami: Snakes, Sex, and Semen
7. Wrestling Tournaments and the Body’s Recreation
8. Hanuman: Shakti, Bhakti, and Brahmacharya
9. The Sannyasi and the Wrestler
10. Utopian Somatics and Nationalist Discourse
11. The Individual Re-Formed

Plates
The Nature of Wrestling Nationalism
Glossary
Bibliography

Contents