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Author Chopra, Samir, author

Title The evolution of a cricket fan : my shapeshifting journey / Samir Chopra ; with a foreword by Mukul Kesavan
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource
Series Sporting
Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. I Genesis and Misautogeny -- Enter Cricket -- Getting Used to an Idea -- Treachery: India in Pakistan -- Places in the Mind -- Doing Well Abroad -- Shine a Light on Me: Reading Sunny Days -- Cricket on the Sidelines: The Packer Years -- Lowest of the Low -- Great Miss -- No Voyagers -- Topsy-Turvy Down Under -- Great Bore: England in India and Vice Versa -- Captain Courageous: Imran at the Helm -- Imran Ascendant, India Descendant -- pt. II World Is Ours -- No Love for Sunny -- Azadi at Nehru Stadium -- Begging to Be Put Out of Misery -- End of a Dream -- Live on Channel Nine: The Indians -- Summer of Missed Opportunity -- Tied Test -- Imran's Last Frontier -- pt. III Crossing the Black Water -- Free of India and Pakistan -- Close Encounters of the Cross-Border Kind -- Cricket on the Internet -- Awakening -- Pakistan Triumphant -- Channel Wars: The Internet Relay Channel -- Hudson Crossings -- Sublime and the Sordid -- Desi Watercoolers -- Back and Forth to India -- Offshore Proxy Wars: Toronto and Sharjah -- Traveling Patriot -- Rewriting Lives: The Military History Connection -- "South Asian" in the Time of Indo-Chic -- Return of the Prodigals -- Cricket and Kargil -- pt. IV All Shook Up Down Under -- Cricket in Oz -- Watching India from Australia -- White Raven -- Back in the USSA -- Great Miss -- "Only Net Pakistanis Are Like This" -- pt. V Brave New Pitch -- Twenty 20: A New View -- Indian Mutiny -- Indian Cricket League
Summary "This memoir chronicles the author's evolving sense of identity as it finds expression in his cricket fandom. As he migrates among continents and develops his relationship with India's history, nationalism, and diaspora, his enthusiasms for teams, players, and the sport itself change"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Includes index
Description based on print version record
Subject Chopra, Samir
Cricket fans -- Biography
Cricket -- Social aspects -- India
East Indians -- Foreign countries -- Ethnic identity
Nationalism and sports -- India
Cricket fans
Cricket -- Social aspects
Nationalism and sports
India
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Kesavan, Mukul, foreword
LC no. 2020043373
ISBN 1439911983
9781439911983