Cricket Country - An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire

The extraordinary story of the first 'All India' national cricket tour of Great Britain and Ireland - and how the idea of India as a nation took shape on the cricket pitch.

List of contents

• Preface


• 1: Parsi Pioneers


• 2: Imperial Wanderers


• 3: Elusive Quest


• 4: Reviving the Dream


• 5: Men in White


• 6: The Captain's Story


• 7: City of the World


• 8: Indian Summer


• 9: Lost and Won


• 10: Beyond the Boundary


• 11: Ends and Beginnings


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Prashant Kidambi is Associate Professor in Colonial Urban History at the University of Leicester. After completing postgraduate degrees in History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford. Kidambis research explores the interface between British imperialism and the history of modern South Asia. He is the author of The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1890-1920 and the editor of Bombay Before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos.

Summary

The extraordinary story of the first 'All India' national cricket tour of Great Britain and Ireland - and how the idea of India as a nation took shape on the cricket pitch.

Product details

• Authors: Prashant Kidambi, Prashant (Associate Professor in Colonial Kidambi, Kidambi Prashant
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2019
• EAN: 9780198843139
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884313-9
• No. of pages: 448
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, cricket, HISTORY / Asia / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SPORTS & RECREATION / Cricket, India, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, British Isles, History and Archaeology, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General