The playground as a theatre for social and political life: Ramachandra Guha interview

In episode 153 of the 81allout podcast we interview the award-winning author and historian - and one of modern India's most renowned biographers - Ramachandra Guha. Support 81allout on Ko-Fi Talking Points: In search of the memories of India's first great cricketer - Palwankar Baloo Does the Bombay school of batting begin with the remarkable P Vithal? How the city of Bombay is a main character in Corner of a Foreign Field The Parsee influence in the history of Indian cricket CK Naydu's epochal 153 against the MCC team in 1926-27 The evolution of the game in post-independence India Race, caste, religion, and nation - the fissures around Indian cricket The India v Pakistan match in Manchester in 1999 - with their soldiers at war Participants: Ramachandra Guha ( @ramguha ) Siddhartha Vaidyanathan ( @sidvee ) * Buy War Minus the Shooting by Mike Marqusee | Buy Cricket Beyond the Bazaar by Mike Coward Books Discussed: Corner of a Foreign Field - Ramachandra Guha - Amazon ; Spin and Other Turns - Ramachandra Guha - Amazon ; Cricket, Public Culture, and Making of Post-Colonial Calcutta - Souvik Naha - Cambridge University Press ; A Stroke of Genius - Gideon Haigh - Amazon ; On Warne - Gideon Haigh - Amazon ; Beyond a Boundary - CLR James - Amazon ; Cricket Country - Prashant Kidambi - Amazon ; Pundits from Pakistan - Rahul Bhattacharya - Amazon ; Fire in Babylon - Simon Lister - Amazon ; Cricket: the game of life - Scyld Berry - Amazon ; Late Cuts - Vic Marks - Amazon