Cricket is an Indian game accidentally invented by the English, it
has famously been said. But India was represented by a cricket team
long before it became a nation. Conceived by an unlikely coalition
of imperial and local elites, it took twelve years and four failed
attempts before the first Indian cricket team made its debut on the
playing fields of imperial Britain. Drawing on an unparalleled
range of original archival sources, Cricket Country is the story of
this first 'All India' national cricket tour of Great Britain and
Ireland. It is also simultaneously the extraordinary tale of how
the idea of India took shape on the cricket pitch long before the
country gained its political independence. Replete with a highly
improbable cast of characters, the tour took place against the
backdrop of anti-colonial protest and revolutionary terrorism in
the high noon of Edwardian imperialism, with an Indian team that
included the young, newly enthroned ruler of the most powerful Sikh
state in India as its captain and, remarkably for the day, two
Dalit cricketers as well. Over the course of their historic tour in
the blazing Coronation summer of 1911, these Indian cricketers
participated in a collective enterprise that epitomizes the way in
which sport - and above all cricket - helped fashion the imagined
communities of both nation and empire.
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