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 |
• | Introduction |
Exercise |
Diet |
• | Milk and Ghi |
• | Almonds |
• | Chana |
• | Fruits and Juices |
• | Regular or Common Food |
• | Volume: Ghi, Milk, and Almonds |
• | Seasonal Variation |
• | Dietary Prohibitions |
• | Brahmacharya |
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 |