India's original men in white
Niranjan Rajadhyaksha, writing in Live Mint , looks backs on the first ‘Indian’ cricket team to tour abroad in 1911, which brought together different communities as a symbol of nationalism in pre-independent India.
Nikita Bastian
25-Feb-2013
Niranjan Rajadhyaksha, writing in Live Mint, looks backs on the first ‘Indian’ cricket team to tour abroad in 1911, which brought together different communities as a symbol of nationalism in pre-independent India.
The 1911 team has gone down in history as the first all-India cricket squad, since members of different faiths and regions were represented. Their travels across England were followed by the educated urban elite at a time when Indian nationalism was getting a more radical edge, in the last years of Bal Gangadhar Tilak and just before the emergence of Mohandas K Gandhi.
Nikita Bastian is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo