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Hybridity and subversion: the Olympic flame in India

Hybridity and subversion: the Olympic flame in India

Sport in Society, 2012
Nalin Mehta
Abstract
This article presents the results of a field study of the 2008 Olympic Flame Relay in Delhi, India, where Tibetan and pro-Tibetan protests against the Chinese Olympic hosts generated a state security transformation of Olympic ritual and a parallel Tibetan counter-performance. These events are placed in the context of earlier Indian practices of indigenization of the Olympic Flame Relay in

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