“boria majumdar”

'At a time when historians around the world are increasingly recognizing global stories of Olympism as crucial to understanding the working of societies, there has been no detailed history of India's Olympic experience. This is a glaring anomaly for a country that became the first colonized nation t... More

This is the first anthology of its kind--it takes us through the course of Indian cricketing history from 1780 to 2003, with an introduction that assesses the role of cricket in Indian life. The narrative is enhanced with archival photographs and original printed material from several regional prima... More

This work is a social history of Indian cricket between 1780 and 2003. It considers cricket as a derivative sport, creatively and imaginatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs, fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations. It is concerned with the appropriation, a... More

INTRODUCTION: SANDIPAN DEBABOUT THE BOOK:Cricket has been the binding spirit for a fractious India; it has been opium and adrenalin, valium and vitamin. It has been social mobility, and it has been tolerance and secularism. The story of Indian cricket is the story of a society, a tapestry woven as a... More

The 2007 World Cup changed the terms of the debate around cricket. For India, the tournament turned out to be a national tragedy; for the first time in years there was a palpable weakening of the foundations of the country's universal obsession. For the hosts, West Indies, it almost put an end to th... More

Extensively based on nearly forgotten and long out-of-print classic titles, old newspaper reports and official archives,Once Upon A Furore is an important addition to the steadily growing corpus of contemporarywriting on the history of Indian cricket. Each chapter of the book presents acaptivating ... More

It may be true that that cricket today arouses more passions in India than in any other cricket playing country in the world. Yet, when it comes to writing on the history of the game, Indians have been reticent and much of the past has been obscured and lost. "The" "Lost Histories of Indian Cricket ... More

It may be true that that cricket today arouses more passions in India than in any other cricket playing country in the world. Yet, when it comes to writing on the history of the game, Indians have been reticent and much of the past has been obscured and lost. "The" "Lost Histories of Indian Cricket ... More

This volume investigates the way in which football supporters around the world express themselves as followers of teams, whether they be professional, amateur or national. The diverse geographical and cultural array of contributions to this volume highlights not only the variety of how fans express ... More

As India celebrates 150 years of the 1857 uprising, interpreted variedly as the sepoy munity or the first war of independence, this collection tries to access 1857 through accounts of cricket matches between Indian sepoys and British officers, ballads, pictorial genres, comic books and filmic rendit... More