A Corner Of A Foreign Field

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : War poetry, American
ISBN : OCLC:1301967550

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Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789351186939

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A Corner of a Foreign Field by Ramachandra Guha Pdf

A Corner of a Foreign Field seamlessly interweaves biography with history, the lives of famous or forgotten cricketers with wider processes of social change. C. K. Nayudu and Sachin Tendulkar naturally figure in this book but so, too, in unexpected ways, do B. R. Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi, and M. A. Jinnah. The Indian careers of those great British cricketers, Lord Harris and D. R. Jardine, provide a window into the operations of Empire. The remarkable life of India’s first great slow bowler, Palwankar Baloo, provides an arresting new perspective on the struggle against caste discrimination. Later chapters explore the competition between Hindu and Muslim cricketers in colonial India and the destructive passions now provoked when India plays Pakistan. For this new edition, Ramachandra Guha has added a fresh introduction as well as a long new chapter, bringing the story up to date to cover, among other things, the advent of the Indian Premier League and the Indian team’s victory in the World Cup of 2011, these linked to social and economic transformations in contemporary India. A pioneering work, essential for anyone interested in either of those vast themes, cricket and India, A Corner of a Foreign Field is also a beautifully written meditation on the ramifications of sport in society at large.

Author : Gillian Chan
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1553373502

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A Foreign Field by Gillian Chan Pdf

This compelling historical novel set during the Second World War shows that sometimes falling apart is only steps away from falling in love.

Author : James Corsan
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1848762100

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For Poulton and England by James Corsan Pdf

An outstanding leader and personality in every respect, Poulton captained England to what is now called a 'Grand Slam' in 1914 – the last season before the First World War. Once war was declared he spent seven months training in England with his battalion of the Royal Berkshire Regiment before crossing to Belgium via France at the end of March 1915. Five weeks later he was shot dead by a sniper in the trenches, still aged only twenty-five.

Author : Prashant Kidambi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198843139

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Cricket Country by Prashant Kidambi Pdf

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.

Author : Boria Majumdar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317970125

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Cricket in Colonial India 1780 – 1947 by Boria Majumdar Pdf

This is an exacting social history of Indian cricket between 1780 and 1947. It considers cricket as a derivative sport, creatively adapted to suit modern Indian socio-cultural needs, fulfil political imperatives and satisfy economic aspirations. Majumdar argues that cricket was a means to cross class barriers and had a healthy following even outside the aristocracy and upper middle classes well over a century ago. Indeed, in some ways, the democratization of the sport anticipated the democratization of the Indian polity itself. Boria Majumdar reveals the appropriation, assimilation and subversion of cricketing ideals in colonial and post-colonial India for nationalist ends. He exposes a sport rooted in the contingencies of the colonial and post-colonial context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. Cricket, to put it simply, is much more than a ‘game’ for Indians. This study describes how the genealogy of their intense engagement with cricket stretches back over a century. It is concerned not only with the game but also with the end of cricket as a mere sport, with Indian cricket’s commercial revolution in the 1930s, with ideals and idealism and their relative unimportance, with the decline of morality for reasons of realpolitik, and with the denunciation, once and for all, of the view that sport and politics do not mix. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport

Author : Prashant Kidambi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351886246

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The Making of an Indian Metropolis by Prashant Kidambi Pdf

This book explores the social history of colonial Bombay in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, a pivotal time in its emergence as a modern metropolis. Drawing together strands that hitherto have been treated in a piecemeal fashion and based on a variety of archival sources, the book offers a systematic analytical account of historical change in a premier colonial city. In particular, it considers the ways in which the turbulent changes unleashed by European modernity were negotiated, appropriated or resisted by the colonised in one of the major cities of the Indian Ocean region. A series of crises in the 1890s triggered far-reaching changes in the relationship between state and society in Bombay. The city’s colonial rulers responded to the upheavals of this decade by adopting a more interventionist approach to urban governance. The book shows how these new strategies and mechanisms of rule ensnared colonial authorities in contradictions that they were unable to resolve easily and rendered their relationship with local society increasingly fractious. The study also explores important developments within an emergent Indian civil society. It charts the density and diversity of the city’s expanding associational culture and shows how educated Indians embraced a new ethic of ’social service’ that sought to ’improve’ and ’uplift’ the urban poor. In conclusion, the book reflects on the historical legacy of these developments for urban society and politics in postcolonial Bombay. This wide-ranging work will be essential reading for specialists in British imperial history, postcolonial studies and urban social history. It will also be of interest to all those concerned with the comparative history of governance and public culture in the modern city.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : English poetry
ISBN : OCLC:1341822513

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A Corner of a Foreign Field by Anonim Pdf

"Represented here are poems dashed off in the full awfulness of the battlefield, as well as those honed with the terrible benefit of hindsight. And there are poems from an earlier age whose themes and aching beauty exactly matched the mood of a nation as an entire generation was lost to war. Here also are poems inspired by the experience of countless mothers, wives, sweethearts, sisters, and daughters left behind ... The poems are counterpointed by painstakingly restored photographic images-- many seen here for the first time-- which show relentlessly cheerful faces, smiling in the face of darkest adversity. You see comradeship of the most truthful kind. Taken from the unique archives of the Daily Mail, the images capture the small moments of un-named individual people in the cataclysmic catastrophe that was branded 'the war to end all wars'--Dust jacket.

Author : Ronojoy Sen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231539937

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Nation at Play by Ronojoy Sen Pdf

Reaching as far back as ancient times, Ronojoy Sen pairs a novel history of India's engagement with sport and a probing analysis of its cultural and political development under monarchy and colonialism, and as an independent nation. Some sports that originated in India have fallen out of favor, while others, such as cricket, have been adopted and made wholly India's own. Sen's innovative project casts sport less as a natural expression of human competition than as an instructive practice reflecting a unique play with power, morality, aesthetics, identity, and money. Sen follows the transformation of sport from an elite, kingly pastime to a national obsession tied to colonialism, nationalism, and free market liberalization. He pays special attention to two modern phenomena: the dominance of cricket in the Indian consciousness and the chronic failure of a billion-strong nation to compete successfully in international sporting competitions, such as the Olympics. Innovatively incorporating examples from popular media and other unconventional sources, Sen not only captures the political nature of sport in India but also reveals the patterns of patronage, clientage, and institutionalization that have bound this diverse nation together for centuries.

Author : Fiona Waters
Publisher : Trans Atlantic
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : War poetry, American
ISBN : 1907176101

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A Corner of a Foreign Field by Fiona Waters Pdf

Some of the most beautiful poetry ever written has come from the horror of the trenches. Represented in this text are poems dashed off in the full awfulness of the battlefield, as well as those honed with the terrible benefit of hindsight.

Author : John Clancy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781291822205

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The Secret Wealth Garden by John Clancy Pdf

John Clancy analyses the make up and extent of the UK's 100 Local Government Pension Funds and makes the case for re-wiring their investments back into the regional economies from which they come.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0193524260

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SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gideon Haigh
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cricket
ISBN : 9780522855531

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Inside Out by Gideon Haigh Pdf

In Gideon Haigh's latest book, one of cricket's finest writers turns his subject Inside Out, examining those aspects of cricket that distinguish it from other games, from the centenary of Sir Donald Bradman and the cult of the baggy green cap to the threat and promise of the Twenty20 revolution. This is cricket not only as it is played, but as it is seen, run, commercialised, codified, promoted, politicised and also written about by others, with a detailed introduction to the distinguished literary traditions of which Gideon Haigh now forms part.

Author : Anthony Bateman,Jeffrey Hill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781107494213

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The Cambridge Companion to Cricket by Anthony Bateman,Jeffrey Hill Pdf

Few other team sports can equal the global reach of cricket. Rich in history and tradition, it is both quintessentially English and expansively international, a game that has evolved and changed dramatically in recent times. Demonstrating how the history of cricket and its international popularity is entwined with British imperial expansion, this book examines the social and political impact of the game in a variety of cultural sites: the West Indies, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. An international team of contributors explores the enduring influence of cricket on English identity, examines why cricket has seized the imagination of so many literary figures and provides profiles of iconic players including Bradman, Lara and Tendulkar. Presenting a global panoramic view of cricket's complicated development, its unique adaptability and its political and sporting controversies, the book provides a rich insight into a unique sporting and cultural heritage.

Author : Souvik Naha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108494588

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Cricket, Public Culture and Postcolonial Society in India by Souvik Naha Pdf

This book expands our historical understanding of postcolonial India by examining how cricket has shaped Indian society and politics.