Jyotirao Govindrao Phule was an Indian social activist,businessman,anti-caste social reformer and writer from Maharashtra. His work extended to many fields,including eradication of untouchability and the caste system and for his efforts in educating women and oppressed caste people. He and his wife,Savitribai Phule,were pioneers of women's education in India. Phule started his first school for girls in 1848 in Pune at Tatyasaheb Bhide's residence or Bhidewada. He,along with his followers,formed the Satyashodhak Samaj to attain equal rights for people from lower castes. People from all religions and castes could become a part of this association which worked for the upliftment of the oppressed classes. Phule is regarded as an important figure in the social reform movement in Maharashtra.The honorific Mahātmā,was first applied to him in 1888 at a special program honoring him in Mumbai.
Colonel Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu was an Indian cricketer and cricket administrator who served as the first-ever captain of the Indian national cricket team. He is widely regarded as one of India's greatest cricketers. His first-class cricket career spanned over 47 years from 1916 to 1963,a world record. He was a right-handed batsman,an accurate medium pace bowler,and a fine fielder. His ability to hit long sixes sent crowds into frenzy and became a part of Indian cricket folklore. He was chosen as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1933. The Government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan in 1956 —the first cricketer to be conferred the honour.
George Frederick Vernon was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club. He also played one Test match for England during the first-ever Ashes tour in 1882-83.
Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai was a major figure in Indian cricket between the wars.
Rustomji Jamshedji Dorabji Jamshedji was an Indian Test cricketer.
The Bombay Tournament was an annual cricket competition held in British India between 1892 and 1946. Until 1936,matches were played on either the Gymkhana Ground in Bombay or the Deccan Gymkhana Ground in Poona,and then at the Brabourne Stadium in Bombay until the tournament was terminated in 1946. The tournament was known variously as the Bombay Presidency Match,Bombay Triangular,Bombay Quadrangular,and Bombay Pentangular,depending on the number of competing teams.
Ramachandra "Ram" Guha is an Indian historian,environmentalist,writer and public intellectual whose research interests include social,political,contemporary,environmental and cricket history,and the field of economics. He is an important authority on the history of modern India.
The Indian cricket team touring England and the British Isles in the summer of 1911 was the first all-Indian team to tour the country. The team was led by the then 19-year old Maharaja of Patiala Bhupinder Singh and had representation from the Parsees,Hindus,and the Muslims. The team had limited success winning only two amongst the 23 matches that they played on the tour.
The Europeans cricket team was an Indian first-class cricket team which took part in the annual Bombay Tournament and Lahore Tournament. The team was founded by members of the European community in Bombay who played cricket at the Bombay Gymkhana.
The Hindus cricket team,run by the Hindu Gymkhana in Bombay,was a first-class team which took part in the annual Bombay Tournament from 1905/06 until its final edition in 1945/46. They won the tournament eleven times. One of their players was Palwankar Baloo,who is generally regarded as India's first great spin bowler.
Vithal Palwankar was an Indian cricketer and a captain of the Hindus team. Vithal led the team to victories over the Mohammedan and European teams,where his captaincy and personal performance were praised. His four-year tenure as captain was filled with similar successes and culminated with the Hindus winning the Quadrangular trophy.[1] He was the younger brother of the Indian spin bowler and social reformer Palwankar Baloo;his other brothers Palwankar Shivram and Palwankar Ganpat were also cricketers.
Palwankar Ganpat was an Indian first-class cricketer. He was the brother of the notable cricketers Palwankar Baloo,Palwankar Shivram and Palwankar Vithal. Like his brothers,Ganpat played for several clubs including the Hindus team in the Bombay Quadrangular competition.
Babaji Palwankar Shivram was an Indian cricketer who was one of the most successful players for the Hindus cricket team in the Bombay Quadrangular competition.
Parmananddas Jivandas Hindu Gymkhana,Primarily,historically known as Hindu Gymkhana is a gymkhana located along Marine Drive in Mumbai. It was originally started as Hindu Cricket Club in 1878. The gymkhana itself was inaugurated by then Governor of Bombay,Lord Harris on 5 May 1894. At that time it was located on Marine Lines,which was the only access as Marine Drive was yet to be reclaimed. Until 1942,membership of the gymkhana was restricted to people of Hindu religion. In 1942,when the government occupied the adjacent premises of the Islam Gymkhana and Parsi Gymkhana in Bombay during World War II,the gymkhana threw its membership open to Parsis and Muslims as well as an "emergency measure". Hindu Gymkhana was responsible for fielding the Hindu XI in the Bombay Quadrangular and its successor Bombay Pentangular cricket tournaments. The gymkhana is one of the founder members of the Bombay Cricket Association. Hindu Gymkhana organises several tournaments such as Purshottam Shield Cricket Tournament,which is the oldest tournament started in 1912 that it organises.
A Corner of a Foreign Field:The Indian History of a British Sport is a 2002 book by Indian historian Ramachandra Guha that offers a historical account of cricket in the Indian subcontinent. Some critics have called it one of the finest books on cricket.
Chambhar is caste from Indian state of Maharashtra,and Northern Karnataka. Their traditional occupation was leather work. Historically subject to untouchability,they were traditionally outside the Hindu ritual ranking system of castes known as varna. Castes with similar traditional occupation are found throughout the Indian subcontinent such as Chamar in Northern india,and Mochi in Gujarat.
Mukundrao Damodar Pai was an Indian cricketer and a member of the first Indian team that toured England in 1911 under the captaincy of Bhupinder Singh of Patiala. Pai was the first Indian cricketer to score a century on his first-class debut,playing for the Hindus against the Europeans in the Bombay Presidency game in 1906.
Kilvidi Seshachari was an Indian cricketer and a member of the first Indian cricket team to tour England in 1911. He played for the Hindus team as a wicket-keeper in the Bombay Quadrangular tournaments between 1902 and 1912. He was considered the best wicket-keeper in India in reports from the period. In addition to the Hindus cricket team in Bombay and the Indian team that toured England,Seshachari played for the Ootacamund Civilians and the Maharaja of Natore's cricket teams.
Colonel Kekhashru Maneksha Mistry was an Indian cricketer who was a member of the first all-Indian cricket team to tour England in 1911. A left-handed batsman and a left-arm bowler,he was considered one of India's first all-rounders. Mistry was a member of the Parsees cricket team in the Bombay Presidency tournaments and also played for the Maharaja of Patiala's team.
Edwin Pearce Hardy was an English first-class cricketer.
