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Zusatztext '?a very good book?' Outlook'? Boria Majumdar integrates the unfolding cricket story inextricably with that of the cultural/ political story within which the Indian game was and remains embedded. The empirical work is exhaustive! the interpretation well grounded?' Biblio Informationen zum Autor Boria Majumdar, a Rhodes scholar, is research fellow at La Trobe University in Melbourne. He is Executive Editor of the Routledge journals Sport in Society and Soccer and Society and Joint General Editor of the Routledge Series, Sport in the Global Society. He is also visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago and a fellow of the International Olympic Museum at Lausanne, Switzerland. A well-known media figure on television, he has also written extensively for the Times of India, Outlook, Wisden and Anandabazar Patrika. Klappentext Discusses social history of Indian cricket between 1780 and 1947. This title considers cricket as a derivative sport! creatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs! fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations. Zusammenfassung An assessment of the role of cricket in Indian life, outlining the complex relationships that existed between those who patronized, promoted, played and watched the game, illuminating India’s colonial and post-colonial past. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Royal Cricket: Self, State, Province and Nation; Chapter 2 Cricket in India: Representative Playing Fields to a Restrictive Preserve; Chapter 3 Crickhet in Colonial Bengal (1880–1947): A Lost History of Nationalism; Chapter 4 Cricket in Late Colonial Bengal (1930–47): A Story of Decline; Chapter 5 Cricket in Colonial Bombay: 1850–1940; Chapter 6 Communalism to Commercialism: The Bombay Pentangular 1892–1946; epilogue Epilogue;
