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Auteur(s) : Kidambi, Prashant (1970-....)
Titre(s) : Cricket country [Texte imprimé] : an Indian Odyssey in the age of empire / Prashant Kidambi
Édition : 1st. ed.
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019
Description matérielle : xx, 423 pages : illustrations (black and white), map ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references p. 391-407 and index
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 twelve 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. The teams
young captain was the newly enthroned ruler of a powerful Sikh state. The other cricketers
were chosen on the basis of their religious identity. Remarkably, for the day, two
of the players were Dalits. Over the course of the blazing Coronation summer of 1911,
these Indians participated in a collective enterprise that epitomizes the way in which
sport and above all cricket helped fashion the imagined communities of both empire
and nation
Sujet(s) : Cricket -- Inde -- 1800-....
Caractère national indien (de l'Inde)
Indice(s) Dewey :
796.358 (23e éd.) = Cricket
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780198843139. - ISBN 0198843135
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46524337q
Notice n° :
FRBNF46524337
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