Cricket Country

As you get pulled into the book, there is melodrama, rioting, political manoeuvring and sneering condescension in a tight partnership with nauseating sycophancy, drunkenness, sporting skulduggery and back-stabbing.

Vorwort
Shortlisted for the 2020 Wolfson History Prize

Autorentext
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.



Klappentext
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.

Inhalt
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

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