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Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire

Prashant Kidambi

The extraordinary story of the first 'All India' national cricket tour of Great Britain and Ireland - and how the idea of India as a nation took shape on the cricket pitch.

HistoryWorld History · medium confidenceWorld History81 signalsLlm Classifier: World History -> World HistoryGoogle Books: History -> HistoryAward Category: Global history -> World HistoryEmpire & ColonialismAsia & the Pacific

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Wolfson History PrizeMajor2022ShortlistOfficial source
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This is an unverified interpretation of the catalog description, offered as an opt-in discovery experiment—not as bibliographic fact.

  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Great Britain and Ireland62%
    • India55%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    The first “All India” national cricket tour of Great Britain and Ireland helped shape the idea of India as a nation, developing on the cricket pitch.

    Model confidence 66%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    65 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 58%.