Eleven Gods And A Billion Indians

Boria Majumdar

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Eleven gods and a billion Indians goes deep into every Indian cricket tour—taking the reader backstage to when India played its first test in 1932, and bringing the story forward to the more contemporary ipl—to provide a complex and nuanced understanding of the evolution and maturity of the game. Equally, it comes with material that has never entered the public domain so far—going behind the scenes of cases like monkeygate, the suspension of br>lalit Modi, spot fixing and the Phase of judicial intervention. It carries not just reportage and analysis but also player reminiscences, personal interviews, photographs and letters never known or discussed so far in Indian sporting discourse. Weaving together such material, eleven gods and a billion Indians unflinchingly confronts questions that demand answering, among them: has internal bickering impacted the on field performance of the Indian cricket team? Did some of our icons fail the country and the sport by trying to conceal important facts during the spot fixing investigation? And does it matter to the ordinary fan who heads the bcci as long as there is transparency and accountability in the system? In the end, in telling the story of the role of cricket in colonial and postcolonial Indian life, and the interrelationship between those who patronize, promote, play and view the sport, eleven gods and a billion Indians unravels the story of a nation now considered the financial nerve centre of world cricket.

Boria Majumdar

Boria Majumdar is an Indian sports journalist, academician and author. Majumdar was born on 8 March 1976 at Kolkata. He completed his schooling from The Frank Anthony Public School, Kolkata. He completed his B.A. in History from Presidency College, University of Calcutta in the year 1997. In 1999 he did his M.A. in Modern History from the same university. He was awarded the Rhodes scholar in 1999-2000 and went to St John’s College, University of Oxford to do a DPhil on the Social History of Indian Cricket in October 2000. [1][2] He completed his doctorate in March 2004 and the thesis was subsequently nominated for publication in the Oxford monographs series. It was published in India by Penguin-Viking as the much acclaimed Twenty-Two Yards to Freedom: A Social History of Indian Cricket in December 2004.