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

by Prashant Kidambi

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“Cricket Country is really a story of the beginnings of the Indian game. It’s focused on the first all Indian cricket tour of Britain in 1911, but it’s not a sports history. It’s really a social history. He uses a lot of archival material, a lot of research, but presents it in a very engaging way. There are quite lot of surprises.” Read more...

The Best History Books: the 2020 Wolfson Prize shortlist

Richard Evans, Historian

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