Cricket in Colonial India 1780 – 1947
Author:   Boria Majumdar (University of Central Lancashire, UK) ,  J. A. Mangan ,  Boria Majumdar
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415400145


Pages:   196
Publication Date:   02 May 2008
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Boria Majumdar (University of Central Lancashire, UK) ,  J. A. Mangan ,  Boria Majumdar
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9780415400145


ISBN 10:   0415400147
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   02 May 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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;

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'...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


'...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


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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.

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