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Guha also traces the link between sport and politics. This edition published in 2002 by picador in london. A padma bhushan recipient in 2009, guha went on to win the 2011 sahitya academy award for india after gandhi.

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It includes an indian history of cricket, an anthology of what people have said about ghandi and a biography of gandhi. India ranks 150th in the world development report, below namibia and above haiti. The history of the world's largest democracy by ramachandra guha. One of his brother vithal palwankar became captain of the indian team.