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Author: Mario Rodrigues Publisher: Penguin Group ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 308
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The Definitive Biography Of An Indian Prince And English Cricketer Ranji Is Enshrined In Popular Perception As The Sporting Icon Who Electrified Victorian England And Scored Over 25,000 Runs Without Ever Playing A Christian Stroke . But There Was A Lot More To The Mysterious Prince Of Hindoo And Much Of It Doesn T Quite Fit With The Extant Stereotype Of The Charming, Generous Sportsman, Progressive Ruler And Enlightened Statesman. The Picture That Emerges From This Long-Overdue Political Biography Is That Of Hrh Jekyll And Maharaja Hyde. The Jam Saheb Of Nawanagar Was An Autocrat, An Often-Absentee Landlord Who Was Flayed By The Press For Ruthlessly Squeezing Money Out Of His Subjects For A Lavishly Spendthrift Durbar. He Did Little To Promote Cricket In His Own Country, And Refused To Let His Talented Nephew Duleep Represent India. More Than That, Ranji Fought Tooth And Nail To Preserve The Raj. As An Important Functionary Of The Princely Order And Chancellor Of The Chamber Of Princes, He Played An Influential And Strikingly Reactionary Role In The Period Between The World Wars. Even As An Increasingly Strident Nationalist Movement Challenged The British Across The Subcontinent, Ranji Schemed And Lobbied For The King-Emperor, To Keep India Bound To The Empire. Batting For The Empire Sheds Light On The Contradictions Between The Sussex Skipper And The Gujarati Despot, And Examines The Tangled Relationships Between The Native States, British India And The British. Mario Rodrigues Has Accessed An Enormous Amount Of Material From A Variety Of Sources To Chronicle The Fascinating Life Of A Complex Man Who Occupied Centre Stage In A Complex Era.
Author: Mario Rodrigues Publisher: Penguin Group ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 308
Book Description
The Definitive Biography Of An Indian Prince And English Cricketer Ranji Is Enshrined In Popular Perception As The Sporting Icon Who Electrified Victorian England And Scored Over 25,000 Runs Without Ever Playing A Christian Stroke . But There Was A Lot More To The Mysterious Prince Of Hindoo And Much Of It Doesn T Quite Fit With The Extant Stereotype Of The Charming, Generous Sportsman, Progressive Ruler And Enlightened Statesman. The Picture That Emerges From This Long-Overdue Political Biography Is That Of Hrh Jekyll And Maharaja Hyde. The Jam Saheb Of Nawanagar Was An Autocrat, An Often-Absentee Landlord Who Was Flayed By The Press For Ruthlessly Squeezing Money Out Of His Subjects For A Lavishly Spendthrift Durbar. He Did Little To Promote Cricket In His Own Country, And Refused To Let His Talented Nephew Duleep Represent India. More Than That, Ranji Fought Tooth And Nail To Preserve The Raj. As An Important Functionary Of The Princely Order And Chancellor Of The Chamber Of Princes, He Played An Influential And Strikingly Reactionary Role In The Period Between The World Wars. Even As An Increasingly Strident Nationalist Movement Challenged The British Across The Subcontinent, Ranji Schemed And Lobbied For The King-Emperor, To Keep India Bound To The Empire. Batting For The Empire Sheds Light On The Contradictions Between The Sussex Skipper And The Gujarati Despot, And Examines The Tangled Relationships Between The Native States, British India And The British. Mario Rodrigues Has Accessed An Enormous Amount Of Material From A Variety Of Sources To Chronicle The Fascinating Life Of A Complex Man Who Occupied Centre Stage In A Complex Era.
Author: Anthony Bateman Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317158059 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 249
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In his important contribution to the growing field of sports literature, Anthony Bateman traces the relationship between literary representations of cricket and Anglo-British national identity from 1850 to the mid 1980s. Examining newspaper accounts, instructional books, fiction, poetry, and the work of editors, anthologists, and historians, Bateman elaborates the ways in which a long tradition of literary discourse produced cricket's cultural status and meaning. His critique of writing about cricket leads to the rediscovery of little-known texts and the reinterpretation of well-known works by authors as diverse as Neville Cardus, James Joyce, the Great War poets, and C.L.R. James. Beginning with mid-eighteenth century accounts of cricket that provide essential background, Bateman examines the literary evolution of cricket writing against the backdrop of key historical moments such as the Great War, the 1926 General Strike, and the rise of Communism. Several case studies show that cricket simultaneously asserted English ideals and created anxiety about imperialism, while cricket's distinctively colonial aesthetic is highlighted through Bateman's examination of the discourse surrounding colonial cricket tours and cricketers like Prince Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji of India and Sir Learie Constantine of Trinidad. Featuring an extensive bibliography, Bateman's book shows that, while the discourse surrounding cricket was key to its status as a symbol of nation and empire, the embodied practice of the sport served to destabilise its established cultural meaning in the colonial and postcolonial contexts.
Author: Dominic Malcolm Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1849665591 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 207
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Globalizing Cricket examines the global role of the sport - how it developed and spread around the world. The book explores the origins of cricket in the eighteenth century, its establishment as England's national game in the nineteenth, the successful (Caribbean) and unsuccessful (American) diffusion of cricket as part of the development of the British Empire and its role in structuring contemporary identities amongst and between the English, the British and postcolonial communities. Whilst empirically focused on the sport itself, the book addresses broader issues such as social development, imperialism, race, diaspora and national identities. Tracing the beginnings of cricket as a 'folk game' through to the present, it draws together these different strands to examine the meaning and social significance of the modern game. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the role of sport in both colonial and post-colonial periods; the history and peculiarities of English national identity; or simply intrigued by the game and its history.
Author: John MacKenzie Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300268815 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 451
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A compelling history of British imperial culture, showing how it was adopted and subverted by colonial subjects around the world As the British Empire expanded across the globe, it exported more than troops and goods. In every colony, imperial delegates dispersed British cultural forms. Facilitated by the rapid growth of print, photography, film, and radio, imperialists imagined this new global culture would cement the unity of the empire. But this remarkably wide-ranging spread of ideas had unintended and surprising results. In this groundbreaking history, John M. MacKenzie examines the importance of culture in British imperialism. MacKenzie describes how colonized peoples were quick to observe British culture—and adapted elements to their own ends, subverting British expectations and eventually beating them at their own game. As indigenous communities integrated their own cultures with the British imports, the empire itself was increasingly undermined. From the extraordinary spread of cricket and horse racing to statues and ceremonies, MacKenzie presents an engaging imperial history—one with profound implications for global culture in the present day.
Author: Brian Stoddart Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9780719049781 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 202
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An exploration of the history of cricket in the British Empire, this text attempts to explain why the sport was so successful, even in countries such as India, Pakistan and the West Indies, where the Anglo-Saxon element remained in a small minority.
Author: Thomas Fletcher Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317401212 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 125
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Ever since different communities began processes of global migration, sport has been an integral feature in how we conceptualise and experience the notion of being part of a diaspora. Sport provides diasporic communities with a powerful means for creating transnational ties, but also shapes ideas of their ethnic and racial identities. In spite of this, theories of diaspora have been applied sparingly to sporting discourses. Despite W.G. Grace’s claim that cricket advances civilisation by promoting a common bond, binding together peoples of vastly different backgrounds, to this day cricket operates strict symbolic boundaries; defining those who do, and equally, do not belong. C.L.R. James’ now famous metaphor of looking ‘beyond the boundary’ captures the belief that, to fully understand the significance of cricket, and the sport’s roles in changing and shaping society, one must consider the wider social and political contexts within which the game is played. Contributions to this volume do just that. Cricket acts as their point of departure, but the way in which ideas of power, representation and inequality are ‘played out’ is unique in each. This book was published as a special issue of Identities.
Author: Ric Sissons Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317680758 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 163
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A great depression, worsening Anglo-Australian relations, the declining British Empire and the challenge from an Australia striving to find a national identity are the context which explain bodyline and its repercussions. Bodyline was a watershed in the history of cricket and politics were publicly seen as part of sport. This book offers a radical reappraisal of bodyline which challenges the official interpretations of the events, and places them in a unique social and political context. .
Author: John J. Harney Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1496215338 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 285
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When the Empire of Japan defeated the Chinese Qing Dynasty in 1895 and won its first colony, Taiwan, it worked to establish it as a model colony. The Japanese brought Taiwan not only education and economic reform but also a new pastime made popular in Japan by American influence: baseball. But unlike in many other models, the introduction of baseball to Taiwan didn't lead to imperial indoctrination or nationalist resistance. Taiwan instead stands as a fascinating counterexample to an otherwise seemingly established norm in the cultural politics of modern imperialism. Taiwan's baseball culture evolved as a cultural hybrid between American, Japanese, and later Chinese influences. In Empire of Infields John J. Harney traces the evolution and identity of Taiwanese baseball, focusing on three teams: the Nenggao team of 1924-25, the Kan? team of 1931, and the Hongye schoolboy team of 1968. Baseball developed as an aspect of Japanese cultural practices that survived the end of Japanese rule at the end of World War II and was a central element of Japanese influence in the formation of popular culture across East Asia. The Republic of China (which reclaimed Taiwan in 1945) only embraced baseball in 1968 as an expression of a distinct Chinese nationalism and as a vehicle for political narratives. Empire of Infields explores not only the development of Taiwanese baseball but also the influence of baseball on Taiwan's cultural identity in its colonial years and beyond as a clear departure from narratives of assimilation and resistance.
Author: Jim Callis Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1932391142 Category : Baseball Languages : en Pages : 516
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The leading annual reference guide to the next generation of rising stars, this handbook provides in-depth analysis and statistics of 900 Minor League players as well as the top prospects and development programs.
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