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.
Apple Podcasts
SpotifyTalking Points:
- The idea behind the Corner of a Foreign Field
- In search of the memories of India’s first great cricketer – Palwankar Baloo
- The Bombay Pentangular, a long-ago precursor to the Indian Premier League
- Does the Bombay school of batting begin with the remarkable P Vithal?
- Baloo and Vithal and their similarities to Jackie Robinson and Mohammad Ali
- 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
- The marvelous raconteur that was Raj Singh Dungarpur
- Some favourite books on cricket – Haigh, Kidambi, Bhattacharya, Berry, Lister, Marks
Participants:
Ramachandra Guha (@ramguha)
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)
*
Buy War Minus the Shooting by Mike Marqusee |
Buy Cricket Beyond the Bazaar by Mike Coward
*
Related:
- Book review: Corner of a Foreign Field – Sharda Ugra – India Today
- A cricket history of India – Gideon Haigh on Corner of a Foreign Field – ESPNcricinfo
- The ‘Untouchable’ Cricketer Who Challenged the British & His Fellow Countrymen – Rinchen Norbu Wangchuk – The Better India
- The first Indian team to visit England – Martin Williamson – ESPNcricinfo
- India’s entry into Test cricket – Amit Varma – ESPNcricinfo
- ‘I wanted my own language to have some of the game’s glory’ – 81allout podcast with Surya Prakash Chaturvedi
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
*
Lead image from here.