Boria Majumdar

Broschiertes Buch

Corridors Of Uncertainty

World Cup 2007 & Beyond

Beschreibung

The 2007 World Cup changed the terms of the debate around cricket. For India, the tournament turned out to be a national tragedy; for the first time in years there was a palpable weakening of the foundations of the country's universal obsession. For the hosts, West Indies, it almost put an end to the dream of creating a unified political, social...

Autor

Boria Majumdar, a Rhodes scholar, is a historian by training who went to St John's College, Oxford University, to do a DPhil on the social history of Indian cricket in October 2000. His doctorate was published as Twenty-Two Yards to Freedom: A Social History of Indian Cricket in December 2004. He has taught at the universities of Chicago, Toronto and La Trobe where he was the first distinguished visiting fellow in 2005. He was also a visiting fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 2009.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers India Pvt Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9788172237059
• ISBN-10: 8172237057
• Artikelnr.: 73784507