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100			_aChatterjee, Amitava
245			_aThe muscular monk : Vivekananda, sports and physical culture in colonial Bengal
260			_c2014
300			_ap.25-29.
362			_a15 Mar
520			_aSwami Vivekananda's thoughts are a complex and multidimensional interplay of India's ancient and medieval past and his 19th century milieu. He was an ardent advocate of masculinity and sports. This article discusses the influential contributions to theories of masculinity which provide a framework within which Vivekananda's physical activities and gendered notions can be situated. His belief that football is not insignificant reveals his concerns for the development of manliness among the so-called effeminate Bengalis. He himself practised a number of colonial sports and expressed profound interest in golf though these sports were not seen as a form of leisure. The lessons of physical culture not only strengthened his body but empowered his mind against inequality and perils. Vivekananda appeals to the Hindu sources for his construction of the body and mind of the spiritual aspirant as a site delimited and shielded. - Reproduced.
650			_aVivekananda, Swami
700			_aNaha, Souvik
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
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999			_c103498 _d103498