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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...
...British divided Bengal along religious lines, its east becoming East Pakistan. Millions of Hindu refugees fled west to Kolkata. With livelihoods and loved ones lost, many had to struggle for their place among the city's better-established West Bengalis. "East Bengal gave them a banner to fly," says Majumdar. "It was their ray of hope...
...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...
Blake and Majumdar fell apart and dropped their match 8-3. And although they extended their match to 6-7, Passarella and Doran could not hold out and lost 8-6, as well...
...Radcliffe has not played a significantwatchdog role in recent years," says Lewis, whohas said the job of Assistant Dean forCo-education Karen E. Avery '87 will gainprominence post-merger. "There are plenty ofpeople watching Harvard, and they will continue towatch."CrimsonShakhi Majumdar...