Word: majumdar
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...payoff occurred a few decades later. In 1911, the Mohun Bagan football squad won the prestigious Indian Football Association Shield tournament - once the preserve of whites-only clubs - toppling the crack East Yorkshire Regiment, the best British team in India, barefoot in the final. Boria Majumdar, India's leading sports historian and author of Goalless, a history of Indian football, describes it as "India's Lagaan moment" - referring to the 2001 Bollywood blockbuster about a fictional cricket-playing village that beat the ruling British at their own game. This was real life, however, and Kolkata erupted in cele-brations, with...
...Cabot: Peter J. Chung, Brendan J. Kelly, Richard D. Kim, Brian S. Levine, Shakhi Majumdar, Jillian R. Shulman, William J. Wailand, Ting Wang and Leah J. Whittington...