Cricket country : an Indian odyssey in the age of empire
Kidambi, Prashant, 1970-2019
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Cricket is an Indian game accidentally invented by the English, it has famously been said. Today, the Indian cricket team is a powerful national symbol, a unifying force in a country riven by conflicts. But India was represented by a cricket team long before it became an independent nation. Drawing on an unparalleled range of original archival sources, Cricket Country is the story of the first All India cricket tour of Great Britain and Ireland. It is also the extraordinary tale of how the idea of India took shape on the cricket field in the high noon of empire. Conceived by an unlikely coalition of colonial and local elites, it took 12 years and three failed attempts before an Indian cricket team made its debut on the playing fields of imperial Britain. This historic tour, which took place against the backdrop of revolutionary politics in the Edwardian era, featured an improbable cast of characters.
Main title:
Cricket country : an Indian odyssey in the age of empire / Prashant Kidambi.
Author:
Kidambi, Prashant, 1970-, author
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Collation:
xx, 423 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780198843139 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
796.358095796.358 KIDA
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1898685