A History of Indian Sport Through 100 Artefacts

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A History of Indian Sport through 100 Artefacts brings together never-before-seen objects – tickets, scorecards, telegrams, letters, newspaper reports – and facts from the annals of Indian sporting history. There is a wealth of tales and nuggets within these pages: the Mohun Bagan team defeating the East Yorkshire Regiment in 1911 to lift the IFA Shield, Ranji’s love poems for Mary Holmes, the 1932 cricket tour of England, India’s hockey exploits at the Olympics, Lata Mangeshkar’s special record in honour of the 1983 World Cup-winning Indian cricket team, and more. Contemporary history and legends like Sachin Tendulkar, Abhinav Bindra, Sania Mirza, Viswanathan Anand and the exploits at the Paralympics 2016 too claim their space in this fascinating archive. Profusely illustrated and beautifully designed, this is a collector’s edition that no sports lover can resist.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Boria Majumdar

Boria Majumdar is a Rhodes Scholar, and currently Deputy Director of the International Research Centre for Sort, Socialisation and Society, De Montfort University, Bedofrd. A visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago and a fellow of the International Olympic Museum, Lausanne (2004), he has completed his doctorate on the social History of Indian Cricket at St. Johns College, Oxford. He is also Deputy Executive Academic Editor of the International Journal of the History of sport (Routledge), and General Editor of the first-ever sports series in Indian publishing, Sport in South Asia, started by YODA PRESS.