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The playground as a theatre for social and political life: Ramachandra Guha interview

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In episode 153 of the 81allout podcast we interview the award-winning author and historian - and one of modern India's most renowned biographers - Ramachandra Guha.

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Talking Points:

  • In search of the memories of India's first great cricketer - Palwankar Baloo
  • Does the Bombay school of batting begin with the remarkable P Vithal?
  • How the city of Bombay is a main character in Corner of a Foreign Field
  • The Parsee influence in the history of Indian cricket
  • CK Naydu's epochal 153 against the MCC team in 1926-27
  • The evolution of the game in post-independence India
  • Race, caste, religion, and nation - the fissures around Indian cricket
  • The India v Pakistan match in Manchester in 1999 - with their soldiers at war

    • Participants:

    Ramachandra Guha (@ramguha)

    Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)

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    Books Discussed:

    • Corner of a Foreign Field - Ramachandra Guha - Amazon; Spin and Other Turns - Ramachandra Guha - Amazon; Cricket, Public Culture, and Making of Post-Colonial Calcutta - Souvik Naha - Cambridge University Press; A Stroke of Genius - Gideon Haigh - Amazon; On Warne - Gideon Haigh - Amazon; Beyond a Boundary - CLR James - Amazon; Cricket Country - Prashant Kidambi - Amazon; Pundits from Pakistan - Rahul Bhattacharya - Amazon; Fire in Babylon - Simon Lister - Amazon; Cricket: the game of life - Scyld Berry - Amazon; Late Cuts - Vic Marks - Amazon


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