Born in Dehradun in 1958, and educated in Delhi and Calcutta, Ramachandra Guha pursued an academic career for ten years before becoming a full-time writer and regular on the global lecture circuit. He is also an internationally-renowned cricket journalist, editor of The Picador Book of Cricket and author of the prize-winning A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport. He lives in Bangalore.
"A fascinating social study, absorbingly told and with much charm."
--"The Independent"
"An original, scholarly, and highly entertaining work by a writer
who combines the skills of biographer, anthropologist, cricket
journalist, and political historian." --"The Spectator "
"Guha effortlessly blends political and social history with a
chronology of the game and those who play it in a country, as he
puts it, "where all things are turned upside down." --"Time Out "
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