The European’s Cruel Mocking of First Indian Cricket Team Tour to Europe - 1870s

In the 1870s the first ever Indian cricket club "The Parsee CC" announced that it's going to England on tour. The reactions the team got, both at home and abroad were heartbreaking.

Refernces:
Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire - Prashant Kidambi
Cricket in Colonial India 1780-1947 - Boria Majumdar
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Achaemenian-dynasty
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sasanian-dynasty
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Shah-nameh

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