Cricket Cauldron: The Turbulent Politics of Sport in Pakistan

by Shaharyar M. Khan and Ali Khan

Pakistan is a country beset with politicised instabilities, economic problems, ethnic conflicts, religious fervour and crises of identity. It is also a country in which the game of cricket has become a nationwide obsession. How has that happened? How does a Muslim country, jealous of its independence and determined to forge a Pakistani identity, so passionately embrace the alien gentleman's game imported by the distant and departed former colonial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780760833
• ISBN13: 9781780760834
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.4" x 8.5"