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Migrant Races is a study of image, identity and mobility in colonial India and imperial Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the career of Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, who migrated from India to England as a teenager in the 1880s and returned to India in 1907, the book unravels the significance of this "racial misfit" living in a colonial society. While in England Ranjitsinhji rose to the heights of sporting hero, captaining the English cricket team to become one of the best-known athletes in the British empire.
Biographer Anne Chambers, brings the intriguing story of Prince Ranjitsinghji, the most famous cricketer of his generation, to light for the first time.
Buruma's prismatic, fascinating first novel is a portrait of Ranji, the cricket player who was "not simply the greatest cricketer of all time, but a fairy tale prince . . . so famous that children sang songs about him, and grown men wept when they saw him play." Buruma weaves the adventures of an unnamed narrator together with a (fictional) undiscovered memoir of Ranji to create a witty and reverbatory meditation on England, India and the post-colonial sense of self.
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In their anthology, 'Cricket,' R.H. Lyttelton and A.G. Steel curate a broad spectacle into the venerable world of cricket, capturing not just the essence of the sport but its significant cultural and historical imprint. Through a selection of compelling narratives, analysis, and reflections, the collection balances on the fine line between the literary and the vividly anecdotal, demonstrating an array of styles from the technical to the profoundly personal. It presents cricket more as a microcosm of society, highlighting values, conflicts, and the evolution of traditions, thereby inviting readers to view the sport as a lens through which broader social narratives can be examined. The authors...
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