The Commonwealth of Cricket

A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

The Commonwealth of Cricket
Ramachandra Guha
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 336pg
11 Nov 2021 UK
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9780008422547
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From one of India' s finest writers, thinkers and commentators, a memoir of a love affair with cricket. As a fan, player, writer, scholar, controversialist and administrator, Ram Guha has spent a life with cricket. In this book, Guha offers both a brilliantly charming memoir and a charter of the life of cricket in India. He traces the game across every level at which it is played: school, college, club, state and country. He offers vivid portraits of local heroes, provincial icons and international stars. Following the narrative of his life intertwined and in love with the sport, Guha captures the magic of bat and ball that has ensnared billions.
PRAISE FOR RAMACHANDRA GUHA' This is far more than just a cricket book. It is an inspired approach to colonial and post-colonial Indian history, as seen in its relationship with what is now, unarguably, the country' s national game . . . . . . But you learn a lot more than just that' Guardian ' A vivid, absorbing read' Sunday Times' Magisterial . . . Balanced and brilliantly readable . . . In fact, this masterly assessment should serve for several generations, and for non-Indians as well' Literary Review' Guha effortlessly blends political and social history with a chronology of the game and those who play it' Time Out' An original, scholarly and highly entertaining work by a writer who combines the skills of biographer, anthropologist, cricket journalist and political historian' David Gilmour, Spectator' A fascinating social study, absorbingly told and with much charm' Independent' Exceptional . . . Cricket suits the rhythms of what Guha still sees as an agrarian culture . . . In cricket alone, India competes as an equal . . . Even in a corner of a foreign field, millions of eyes will watch every move. ' Independent
Ramachandra Guha is an Indian historian and economist whose research interests include environmental, social, economics, political, contemporary and cricket history. He is also a columnist for The Telegraph, Hindustan Times and Hindi Daily Newspaper Amar Ujala. Guha' s books and essays have been translated into more than twenty languages. The prizes they have won include the UK Cricket Society' s Literary Award and the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society of Environmental History. In 2008, Prospect and Foreign Policy magazines nominated Guha as one of the world' s one hundred most influential intellectuals. In 2009, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan for services to literature and education. In 2015, he was awarded the Fukuoka Prize for contributions to Asian culture and scholarship.
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ISBN-13: 9780008422547
Published: 11 Nov 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: William Collins
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 21mm
Weight: 270g
Pages: 336

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