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Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire de Prashant Kidambi

Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire

Autor Prashant Kidambi
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 iul 2022

Interdisciplinaritatea lucrării Cricket Country este evidentă prin modul în care Prashant Kidambi împletește istoria sportivă cu sociologia politică și studiile coloniale. Considerăm că această apariție editorială de la OUP OXFORD nu este doar o cronică a unui turneu sportiv, ci o analiză riguroasă a modului în care identitatea indiană a fost negociată pe terenurile de joc ale imperiului. Notăm cu interes cum autorul folosește vara încoronării din 1911 ca fundal pentru o poveste despre reziliență și diplomație culturală.

Textul explorează o premisă fascinantă: formarea unei echipe reprezentative într-o Indie care nu era încă o națiune independentă. Merită menționat faptul că selecția jucătorilor, bazată pe criterii religioase și incluzând membri ai comunității Dalit, reflectă tensiunile și aspirațiile unei societăți în plină transformare. Din punct de vedere stilistic, Prashant Kidambi evită abordarea pur statistică, optând pentru o narațiune bogată în detalii arhivistice care surprinde atât ostilitatea elitelor coloniale, cât și manevrele politice din culise.

Lucrarea completează perspectiva oferită de The 1935 Australian Cricket Tour of India, adăugând o dimensiune esențială despre originile timpurii ale reprezentării naționale, în timp ce volumul lui Megan Ponsford se concentrează pe perioada interbelică. De asemenea, spre deosebire de Globalizing Cricket, care oferă o privire de ansamblu asupra difuzării sportului în imperiu, Cricket Country se focalizează microscopic pe momentul critic al nașterii „comunităților imaginate” prin sport. În contextul operei sale, această carte continuă preocuparea autorului pentru spațiul urban și social indian, teme explorate anterior în The Making of an Indian Metropolis și Bombay Before Mumbai, mutând însă atenția de la structura orașului la structura identității naționale manifestate prin sport.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198843146
ISBN-10: 0198843143
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Cricket Country cititorilor pasionați de istoria Asiei și de mecanismele colonialismului. Este o resursă valoroasă pentru studenții de la istorie și științe politice, oferind o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care un sport „englezesc” a devenit vehiculul naționalismului indian. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a contextului eduardian și a rolului surprinzător pe care incluziunea socială timpurie l-a jucat în sportul de elită.

Despre autor

Prashant Kidambi este un istoric recunoscut, specializat în istoria modernă a Indiei, cu un interes marcat pentru dezvoltarea urbană și socială a metropolei Bombay. În lucrările sale anterioare, precum The Making of an Indian Metropolis, a analizat transformările sociale din perioada victoriană și eduardiană, utilizând surse arhivistice detaliate pentru a reconstrui viața cotidiană și structurile puterii coloniale. Expertiza sa în navigarea arhivelor istorice se reflectă în Cricket Country, unde reușește să transforme datele istorice rigide într-o narațiune fluidă despre sport și politică imperială.

Descriere

Cricket is an Indian game accidentally invented by the English, it has famously been said. But India was represented by a cricket team long before it became a nation.Conceived by an unlikely coalition of imperial and local elites, it took twelve years and four failed attempts before the first Indian cricket team made its debut on the playing fields of imperial Britain. Drawing on an unparalleled range of original archival sources, Cricket Country is the story of this first 'All India' national cricket tour of Great Britain and Ireland. It is also simultaneously the extraordinary tale of how the idea of India took shape on the cricket pitch long before the country gained its political independence.Replete with a highly improbable cast of characters, the tour took place against the backdrop of anti-colonial protest and revolutionary terrorism in the high noon of Edwardian imperialism, with an Indian team that included the young, newly enthroned ruler of the most powerful Sikh state in India as its captain and, remarkably for the day, two Dalit cricketers as well.Over the course of their historic tour in the blazing Coronation summer of 1911, these Indian cricketers participated in a collective enterprise that epitomizes the way in which sport - and above all cricket - helped fashion the imagined communities of both nation and empire.

Recenzii

Cricket Country marks a very significant departure from the conventional writings on Indian cricket in "setting its narrative within a transnational frame"...It also significantly contributes to the genre of exploring neglected episodes of Indian sporting history and reconstructing the fascinating narratives of those episodes in the context of colonial and postcolonial India.
For scholars involved in the humanities and social sciences of sport, there is much to learn and use from the findings reported by Kidambi from his archival research. For the philosophers of sport, this material should also prompt further reflection on the implications of spreading sports over large geographical areas while sticking to formally unified technical frameworks.
Shortlisted for the 2020 Wolfson History Prize
Selected as a 2019 Sport Book of the Year in The Financial Times
Prashant Kidambi tells the intriguing story of the first "All-India", and largely forgotten, team to reach British shores ... Kidambi's achievement is to retrieve from obscurity the backbone of the team, including a Dalit, or low-caste, bowler Palwankar Baloo, and Muslim cricketers from the Islamic educational centre of Aligarh.
5* review: This book is an engagingly written and deeply researched social history of the last days of imperial Britain, and the first days of Modern India. The 1911 tour is used as a framing device through which the author explores the ties that bound the colony together and the slow beginnings of an Indian nationhood. It is a history book, not a cricket book, and all the better for it.
Kidambi's forensic eye and vast array of sources make for a ... nuanced revisionism. Not that he pulls his punches.
Cricket Country explores both the history of imperial British cricket in India and colonial Indian cricket in Britain, as well as cricket as a vehicle for nation-building, cultural diplomacy, imperial pedagogy and masculinity, but at its heart tells the tale of a group of men in search of sporting glory... Prashant Kidambi traces the story with great detail, which will delight cricket enthusiasts.
You don't have to know a lot about cricket, or even be an enthusiast, to enjoy this book ... [Kidambi] uses a lot of archival material, and presents a lot of original research, but writes it in a very engaging way.
Kidambi has produced a masterly piece of sports scholarship, fit to be considered alongside books on more weighty historical subjects. The depth of his research is extraordinary and his knowledge of Indian history [...] is just as important as his knowledge of cricket ... this is a terrific book.
This is a richly detailed, rewarding, fascinating book.
The book is 10 years' work and it shows, in its elegance and detail. By going somewhere so unexplored, and producing something so original, Kidambi lays claim to being a Rahul Dravid among cricket historians.
a formidable piece of scholarship that recreates the time in staggering detail.
The work that has gone into Cricket Country is astonishing... there is still a particular pleasure to be had from the experience of reading a book as well edited and produced as this one... Cricket Country goes well beyond the usual parameters of cricket writing... for those who are interested in where the Indian game has come from it really is a 'must read'.
Meticulously researched and impeccably sourced, this is a first-rate book of serious history that also happens to be about cricket... A well written and important book on a little-known tour.
A serious contribution to the literature on Indian cricket history and cricket's position in the British Empire. Beyond that, it is an engrossing and thoroughly engaging read.
With a nod to Edmund Blunden's famous book in his title, Kidambi tells the little-known tale of the first Indian cricket team to tour England, in the summer of 1911. This may well become a classic to rank alongside the very best of cricket books.
This magnificent book recreates the forgotten story of the first All India cricket team, which toured England in 1911. Featuring Brahmins and Dalits, Parsis and Muslims, and led by a Sikh, this team was forging the idea of India on the sporting field while Mohandas K. Gandhi was still an expatriate in South Africa. It is a fascinating tale, and Prashant Kidambi tells it beautifully. He juxtaposes vivid quotations from primary sources with deft sketches of personalities, close accounts of cricket matches won and lost with thoughtful meditations on imperialism and nationalism. Scholars, students, history and sports buffs, will all find reading Cricket Country an enormously educative as well as hugely enjoyable experience. I certainly did.
More than a hundred summers ago, an All-India cricket team toured England for the first time. Prashant Kidambi's wonderful account of that pioneering team and its bid to represent a sub-continent is the story of a motley band of cricketers calling India into being. Through the history and itinerary of this would-be 'Indian' team, Kidambi cunningly explores the meaning of belonging and representation in British India. Cricket Country s easily the most enjoyable non-fiction book you'll read this year.
Kidambi tells an intriguing story exceptionally well.
heavily researched and stylishly written
Cricket Country tells [its] riveting story with passion and authority.
A beatifully researched history
Cricket Country ... is as much about the country as it is about cricket. It is a book of history that uses cricket as a framing device... [It] offers ... fascinating insights.
Remarkably researched... The account of the tour is engrossing
As you get pulled into the book, there is melodrama, rioting, political manoeuvring and sneering condescension in a tight partnership with nauseating sycophancy, drunkenness, sporting skulduggery and back-stabbing.

Notă biografică

Prashant Kidambi is Associate Professor in Colonial Urban History at the University of Leicester. After completing graduate degrees in History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to pursue a doctorate at the University of Oxford. His research explores the interface between British imperialism and the history of modern South Asia, with a specific focus on cities. In addition to numerous articles in journals and edited volumes, he is the author of The Making of an Indian Metropolis: Colonial Governance and Public Culture in Bombay, 1890-1920 (Aldershot, 2007; London and New York, 2016). His other research interests include the social history of sport in colonial and postcolonial India.