Examines cricket's influence on India, from the beginnings to the growth that led to India becoming the commercial backbone of the sport worldwide.

A Maidan View

Sports & Outdoors

Mihir Bose

Other Team Sports

Penguin books.India

The Magic of Indian Cricket, Revised Edition

Routledge

Cricket Voices: Interviews with Mihir Bose

KINGSWOOD P.

Lost Hero: Biography of Subhas Chandra Bose

Quartet Books

Raj, Secrets, Revolution

Grice Chapman Publishing

The Spirit of the Game

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Constable Robinson

Hachette

William Hill: The Man and the Business

This is the story of how a working class boy born into a family of 13 children in pre-First World War, Peaky Blinders-Birmingham grew up to revolutionise the world of betting and bookmaking. William Hill beat the odds by starting out as a teenage  one-man band making the rounds of  Birmingham's factories, pubs and clubs on  his second-hand motorbike taking penny, tuppence and tanner bets. He went on to launch a fixed odds football betting business which took a total of GBP6 18/6d in its first week,but grew to a multi-million pound turnover before being almost taxed into extinction. However, today, William Hill, whose first London office was opened in 1934, and staffed by just William and one clerk, is a truly global bookmaker, with offices in nine countries; operating across 19 time zones, is a FTSE 100 company, has over 2,500 betting shops and employs nearly 20,000 people.

Graham Sharpe

Raceform Ltd

The British, who are rightly proud of their sporting traditions, are now having to come to terms with the dark, unacknowledged, past of racism in sport – until now the truth that dare not speak its name. 
Conscious and unconscious racism have for decades blighted the lives of talented black and Asian sportsmen and women, preventing them from fulfilling their potential. In Formula One, despite Lewis Hamilton’s stellar achievements, barely one per cent of the 40,000 people employed in the sport are of ethnic minority heritage. In football, Britain’s premier sport, the number of non-white managers in the professional game remains pitifully small. And in cricket, Azeem Rafiq’s testimony to the Commons select committee has exposed the scandal of prejudice faced by Asian cricketers in the game. 
Veteran author and journalist Mihir Bose examines the way racism has affected black and Asian sportsmen and women and how attitudes have evolved over the past fifty years. He looks in depth at the controversies that have beset sport at all levels: from grassroots to international competitions and how the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement has had a seismic impact throughout sport, with black sports personalities leading the fight against racism. However, this has also led to a worrying white fatigue. 
Talking to people from playing field to boardroom and the media world, he illustrates the complexities and striking contrasts in attitudes towards race. We hear the voices of players, coaches and administrators as Mihir Bose explores the question of how the dream of a truly non-racial sports world can become a reality.

Dreaming the Impossible: The Battle to Create a Non-Racial Sports World

Arena Sport

Hollywood may define our idea of movies but it is the city of bombay on the west coast of india that is now the centre of world cinema every year the indian film industry produces more than 1,000 feature films, every day 14 million indians go to a movie in the country, a billion more people a year buy tickets for indian movies than for hollywood ones the rise of bombay as the film capital of the world has been both remarkable and amazing the bollywood movies themselves are a self-contained world with their multiple song and dance routines, intense melodrama, and plots that contain everything from farce to tragedy but always produce a happy ending the men and women who created these movies are even more remarkable and it is this fantastic, rich, diverse story, a veritable indian fairyland, that mihir bose, a native of bombay, tells with vivid brilliance in the first comprehensive history of this major social and cultural phenomenon

Bollywood a History [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2006] MIHIR BOSE

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

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