{"product_id":"13755-once-upon-a-furore-lost-pages-of-indian-cricket","title":"Once Upon a Furore - Lost Pages of Indian Cricket","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Boria Majumdar\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Yoda Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2004\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 170\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8190227203\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDid you know that Lala Amarnath was once charged with accepting a purse of Rs 5,000 from cricket enthusiasts in Calcutta for including a Bengali player in the Indian side? Or that an Indian side was forced to come back from the UK because they had no money to eat and live on? Or that match fixing was alive and well in India as early as 1948? These are some of the controversial moments in Indian cricket history which Boria Majumdar retrieves from the dusty shelves of archives for this delightful new volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExtensively based on nearly forgotten and long out-of-print classic titles, old newspaper reports and official archives, this volume is an important addition to the steadily growing corpus of contemporary writing on the history of Indian cricket. Each chapter of the book presents a captivating story of intrigues and power-play. Through a look at controversies that have plagued Indian cricket over the years, this book draws attention to the fact that the country's intense engagement with the game stretches back more than a century. In doing so the author brings to light the writings of those he calls the day-do-day historians of cricket, like J C Maitra, Berry Sarbadhikary and JM Ganguly, who had written on the game for years in newspapers and journals, yet remain little known to even the most avid sports enthusiast in contemporary India.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume, the first in a new series called Sport in South Asia, brings to life a cricketing past hat is fast disappearing, whilst restoring lost pages of our cricket history, and resuscitating forgotten protagonists, both players and administrators. An engaging slice from the fascinating saga of Indian cricket, this book is as much a collector's item fort eh sports enthusiast, as it is serious reading for the cultural historian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePROLOGUE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmpire vs Parsee XI\u003cbr\u003eThe Cricketing Jam: Ranji's Leg Glance to the Throne\u003cbr\u003eBirthpangs: Naming the Ranji Trophy\u003cbr\u003eThe Amarnath Affair\u003cbr\u003eNayudu Scorned\u003cbr\u003eTour de Farce\u003cbr\u003eThe Pentangular Panned\u003cbr\u003eThe Pretender and the Prima Donna\u003cbr\u003eMankad's Folly\u003cbr\u003eMen in Black and White\u003cbr\u003eMatch Fixing: An Enemy of Yore\u003cbr\u003eAll the Skipper's Men: The Ban of 1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Boria Majumdar \/ Yoda Press \/ Hardcover","offer_id":40785577345193,"sku":"13755","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/13755.jpg?v=1625524656","url":"https:\/\/indiaclub.com\/de\/products\/13755-once-upon-a-furore-lost-pages-of-indian-cricket","provider":"India Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}