Cricket Ka Commonwealth, Ramachandra Guha
Cricket Ka Commonwealth, Ramachandra Guha
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Cricket Ka Commonwealth
Vishwa ke Sabse Shishth Khel ke Saath Mera Ajivan Prem Sambandh

Author: Ramachandra Guha, Ketan Mishra, Ketan Mishra

Narrator: Kandarp Relhan

Unabridged: 15 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperHindi

Published: 04/20/2022


Synopsis

When 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.

About Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha's books include a pioneeringenvironmental history, The Unquiet Woods; a landmarkhistory of the Republic, India after Gandhi; and anauthoritative two-volume biography of MahatmaGandhi, each of which was chosen by the New YorkTimes as a Notable Book of the Year. He is also theauthor of two memoirs, The Commonwealth of Cricketand The Cooking of Books.Guha is currently Distinguished University Professor atKrea University. He has previously taught at Oslo,Stanford and the London School of Economics. Guha'smany awards include the Leopold-Hidy Prize of theAmerican Society for Environmental History, theElizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography andthe Fukuoka Prize for contributions to Asian culture.He is the recipient of an honorary doctorate in thehumanities from Yale University.

About Ketan Mishra

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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