![]() ![]() The remarkable life of India’s first great slow bowler, Palwankar Baloo, provides an arresting new perspective on the struggle against caste discrimination. Jardine, provide a window into the operations of Empire. The Indian careers of those great British cricketers, Lord Harris and D. Nayudu and Sachin Tendulkar naturally figure in this book but so, too, in unexpected ways, do B. A Corner of a Foreign Field seamlessly interweaves biography with history, the lives of famous or forgotten cricketers with wider processes of social change. ![]()
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