Here was a social history of the game that met and challenged the yet-lingering gaze of English colonialism across Asia – as profound and as timely, if not entirely as radical, as CLR James’s Beyond a Boundary had been in the 1960s.Ī week before Guha’s landmark work was published, in July 2002, India had chased down England’s 325 to win a tantalisingly close NatWest Series final with three balls to spare, and Sourav Ganguly had torn off his shirt and whipped it round his head on the Lord’s balcony. The importance (not to say brilliance) of Ramachandra Guha’s work was immediately understood, and its subtitle – An Indian History of a British Sport – perfectly encapsulated its pioneering perspective.
I t is nearly two decades since A Corner of a Foreign Field was published.
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