| The Wrestler’s Body |
| 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 |
| • | The Enemy Within |
| • | The Body and Civic Duty |
| • | The Rhetoric of Somatic Reform |
| • | Government Patronage: The State as King of Kings |
| • | The Utopian Vision |
| • | Ascetic Wrestlers: Agents of Utopian Reform |
| 11. The Individual Re-Formed |
| Plates |
| The Nature of Wrestling Nationalism |
| Glossary |
| Bibliography |