Cricket's Changing Ethos Nobles, Nationalists and the IPL /

• Main Author: Gemmell, Jon (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Global Culture and Sport Series,
• Subjects: Sports-Sociological aspects.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Globalization.; Sociology of Sport and Leisure.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

This book examines historically how cricket was codified out of its variant folk-forms and then marketed with certain lessons sought to reinforce the values of a declining landed interest. It goes on to show how such values were then adapted as part of the imperial experiment and were eventually rej...