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Twenty-two Yards to Freedom

Twenty-two Yards to Freedom

A Social History of Indian Cricket

by Boria Majumdar
Hardback
Publication Date: 12/05/2005

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Cricket is much more than a game for Indians. This book examines the role of cricket in India national life and the relationship between those who have patronized, promoted, played and viewed the game. It analyses the impact of colonization on the evolution of cricket in India while it raises several questions on the social history of the nation and the relationship between sport, identity and communalism
ISBN:
9780670057948
9780670057948
Category:
Cricket
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
12-05-2005
Publisher:
Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd
Country of origin:
India
Pages:
496
Boria Majumdar

Boria Majumdar, a Rhodes scholar, is recognized as one of India’s most influential commentators. Having covered international sport between 2000 and 2017, he is currently Consulting Editor, Sport, India Today Group and Senior Research Fellow, University of Central Lancashire.

He was formerly Sports Expert at Times Now and Visiting Professor at the Universities of Chicago and Toronto. Majumdar has written more than 1,000 columns on sports over the last fifteen years, and has authored or co-authored multiple books, among them Olympics: The India Story (with Nalin Mehta) and Playing It My Way—Sachin Tendulkar’s autobiography.

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