- Title
- Frank and Bhupinder : the odd couple of Indian cricket
- Creator
- Ponsford, Megan
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/81599
- Identifier
- vital:8260
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2014.976006
- Identifier
- ISSN:1743-0437
- Abstract
- In 1935-1936, a non-sanctioned group of cricketers embarked on the inaugural tour of India with the ambitious, unorthodox, professional Frank Tarrant employed as team manager. Maharaja Bhupinder Singh lavishly financed the tour motivated by his love of cricket, his political and economic aspirations, its recognition as a symbol of allegiance to the British and by the prospect of leaving a legacy as the guardian of the game. Primary source material reveals that xenophobic prejudice and discrimination were endemic during the 1930s and the relationship between Tarrant and the Maharaja challenged the imperial paradigm. This article interrogates the mutually advantageous relationship and the tour through Orientalist theory discourse. The role of Tarrant will be examined, specifically regarding the ethnographic discrepancy between his representation in India and the British World. The article assesses the mutually beneficial, amiable relationship between Tarrant and the Maharaja as a metonym for wider Australia-India transactions. © 2014, Taylor & Francis.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Relation
- Sport in Society Vol. 18, no. 5 (2015), p. 565-576
- Rights
- Copyright © 2014, Taylor & Francis
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1106 Human Movement and Sports Science; 1504 Commercial Services; 1608 Sociology; Cricket; India; Australia; Frank Tarrant; Maharaja Bhupinder Singh
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