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Title
The Great Tamasha: Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of
ISBN
9781408158777
EAN
9781408158777
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
The Great Tamasha: Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India
Item Height
198mm
Author
James Astill
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Topic
History
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
256g
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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On a Bangalore night in April 2008, cricket and India changed forever. It was the first night of the Indian Premier League - cricket, but not as we knew it. It involved big money, glitz, prancing girls and Bollywood stars. It was not so much sport as tamasha: a great entertainment. The Great Tamasha examines how a game and a country, both regarded as synonymous with infinite patience, managed to produce such an event. James Astill explains how India's economic surge and cricketing obsession made it the dominant power in world cricket, off the field if rarely on it. He tells how cricket has become the central focus of the world's second-biggest nation: the place where power and money and celebrity and corruption all meet, to the rapt attention of a billion eyeballs. Astill crosses the subcontinent and, over endless cups of tea, meets the people who make up modern India - from faded princes to back-street bookmakers, slum kids to squillionaires - and sees how cricket shapes their lives and that of their country. Finally, in London he meets Indian cricket's fallen star, Lalit Modi, whose driving energy helped build this new form of cricket before he was dismissed in disgrace: a story that says much about modern India. The Great Tamasha is a fascinating examination of the most important development in cricket today. A brilliant evocation of an endlessly beguiling country, it is also essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the workings of modern India. Winner of the British Sports Book Awards Cricket Book of the Year 2014.

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Book Title
The Great Tamasha: Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India
Author
James Astill
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
256g

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James Astill
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Wisden Sports Writing
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