#Cricket in India is more than a game; it’s a tale of #caste, religion, and resistance.

Read about Ramachandra Guha’s "A Corner of a Foreign Field:Indian History of a British Sport"—a must-read for lovers of #Indianhistory and sport.

Review:

https://yayaver.blogspot.com/2025/10/book-review-corner-of-foreign-field.html

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Book Review: A Corner of a Foreign Field - Ramachandra Guha

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How a food crisis in India fed America's library collections

A books-for-grain deal allowed India to get crucial food aid while US libraries built up a treasure trove of literature.

Ok started with a different (and much more contemporary) book for my #Indianbooks in #translation. I finished Vasudhendra's 'Tejo-Tungabhadra', originally in Kannada, translated by Maithreyi Karnoor. It was a delightful read, and a perfect follow on to Rushdie's Victory City. One really doesn't learn enough about the Vijayanagara, Chola or other southern kingdoms in school.
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Starting to attempt a reading series of #Indianbooks in #translation on #bookstodon. A good starting point for English readers is the Sahitya Akademi translation prize in English - a list of all winners is here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sahitya_Akademi_Translation_Prize_winners_for_English
List of Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize winners for English - Wikipedia

6/x Fave reads of 2023…

"The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom" interviews surviving veterans of the Indian anti-colonial movement, via activist journalist P. Sainath.

It expands the scope of what resistance and resisters looks like (adivasis, Dalits, women, and children).

The Indian government may not have deemed them “official” freedom fighters, but Sainath pulls them into the canon.

https://www.penguin.co.in/book/the-last-heroes/

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The Last Heroes - Penguin Random House India

So who really spearheaded India’s Freedom Struggle? Millions of ordinary people-farmers, labourers, homemakers, forest produce gatherers, artisans and others-stood up to the British. People who never went on to be ministers, governors, presidents, or hold other high public office. They had this in common: their opposition to Empire was uncompromising. In The Last Heroes, these […]

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