Get A Corner Of A Foreign Field: The Indian History Of A British Sport Gif. A corner of every foreign field: A corner of a foreign field had spoken of the role played in promoting the sport by princely patrons, and later by the public sector corporations.

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English game to a global sport. This work focuses less on numbers and stats and more on the social and political circumstances in the colonial and postcolonial india and. This is a brilliant history of cricket in india (and pakistan), a superb book about why we play and watch sport, and an excellent introduction to the history of india itself.

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A corner of a foreign field is in fact a study of the indian society and its development through the lens of cricket. The first indian players of the game were parsis, who were always more ready to accommodate the british. A history of cricket in the subcontinent written by a good historian. The evolution of british foreign policy in the 1930s (modern british.