The Indian Premier League - merging the three forces of politics, business and Bollywood - has transformed cricket and transfixed India like nothing before it. 'The Great Tamasha' is the story of modern India, as told through the glitzy, scandalous and mind-blowingly lucrative IPL Twenty20 cricket tournament
Includes bibliographical references and index
Chapter One: Mastering the Game -- Chapter Two: In the Land of the Blind -- Chapter Three: The Cricket Box -- Chapter Four: The Pawar and the Glory -- Chapter Five: Boundaries of Belief -- Chapter Six: Cricket, Caste and the Countryside -- Chapter Seven: Cricket a la Modi -- Chapter Eight: With the Daredevils -- Chapter Nine: Twenty 20 Vision