Shadows Across the Playing Field by Shashi Tharoor & Shaharyar Khan

Author:Shashi Tharoor & Shaharyar Khan
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9788174367181
Publisher: Roli Books
Published: 2011-04-06T04:00:00+00:00

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1. Omar Noman, Pride and Passion: An Exhilarating Half Century of Cricket in Pakistan (Karachi, Oxford, 1998), p 71.

2. Ramachandra Guha, A Corner of a Foreign Field (Picador, London, 2002) p. 389.

3. Quoted in Guha, Foreign Field, p. 407.

4 . Guha, Foreign Field, p 420.

rivalry and diplomacy

Shashi Tharoor

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ravelling in the Maharaja of Gwalior’s Bentley, Douglas Jardine scanned the jungle, rifle at the ready, his piercing eyes searching for the elusive prize of a tiger. Jardine was captain of the MCC team on a four-month tour of India in the winter of 1933-34. He had opted out of MCC’s team in some of its side matches in search of big game, having shot a lion as guest of the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar and a bear when invited by the Maharaja of Datia. He had responded to the Maharaja of Patiala’s hospitality by insisting on including the Yuvraj (heir) of Patiala, an MCC member, in one of MCC’s side matches. In doing so Jardine had spurned the advice of the British Viceroy who wanted the MCC side to project Britain’s imperial authority against the tide of anti-colonial agitation led by Mahatma Gandhi. As a member of Britain’s social elite, Jardine was comfortable with the Indian princes who dominated cricket in India at the time.

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