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Learn moreWhen Ramachandra Guha began following the game in the early 1960s, India was utterly marginal to the world of cricket: the country still hadn't won a Test match overseas; by the time he joined the Board of Control for Cricket in India, fifty years later, India had become world cricket's sole superpower.
Cricket ka Commonwealth, the Hindi translation of the popular and critically acclaimed The Commonwealth of Cricket, is a first-person account of this astonishing transformation. The book traces the entire arc of cricket in India, across all levels at which the game is played: school, college, club, state, country. It presents vivid portraits of local heroes, provincial icons, and international stars.
Cast as a work of literature, Cricket ka Commonwealth is keenly informed by the author's scholarly training, the stories and sketches narrated against a wider canvas of social and historical change. The book blends memoir, anecdote, reportage and political critique, providing a rich, insightful and rivetingly readable account of this greatest of games as played in the country that has most energetically made this sport its own.
Ramachandra Guha was born andraised in the Himalayan foothills. He studied in Delhi and Kolkata, and haslived for many years in Bengaluru. His books include a pioneering environmentalhistory, The Unquiet Woods, a landmark history of the Republic, Indiaafter Gandhi, and an authoritative two-volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi,each of which was chosen by the New York Times as a Notable Book of theYear. His books and essays have been translated into more than twentylanguages.
Ramachandra Guha has taught atStanford and Oslo, held the Phillippe Roman Chair at the London School ofEconomics, and served as the Satish Dhawan Visiting Professor at the IndianInstitute of Science. He is currently Distinguished University Professor atKrea University. Guha's awards include theLeopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society of Environmental History, the HowardMilton Prize of the British Society for Sports History, the Elizabeth LongfordPrize for Historical Biography, the Sahitya Akademi Award, and the FukuokaPrize for contributions to Asian studies. He is the recipient of an honorarydoctorate in the humanities from Yale University
Ketan Mishra is a journalist who writes mainly on films and cricket. He has been associated with Lallantop for a long time and is now working in Alt News. Before this book, he has also translated Rajdeep Sardesai's book Team Democracy.
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