2012年AP世界历史简答题真题+答案+PDF下载
1. Using the following documents, analyze the relationship between cricket and politics in South Asia from 1880 to 2005. Identify an additional type of document and briefly explain how it would help analyze the relationship between cricket and politics.
Historical Background: Great Britain directly ruled the Indian subcontinent from 1858 to 1947, when the colony was split into the independent states of predominantly Hindu India and predominantly Muslim Pakistan.
Document 1
Source: Indian cricket players, petition to Sir James Fergusson, governor of the province of Bombay, India, 1881.
Ever since the British introduced the noble game of cricket among the natives of Bombay nearly twenty years ago, more than five hundred young men of all ages and of all castes pursue this healthful sport on the Parade ground where alone they are permitted to play and which is the only ground suitable for cricket.
Therefore, we cannot understand that the comforts and convenience of the half-a-dozen English gentlemen, who generally play polo, should be preferred to the necessary healthful recreation of over five hundred native youths. The polo ponies completely ruin the turf and render the ground unsuited to cricket.
Under the circumstances, will your Excellency and council please request that the English play polo on another spot or allow your Petitioners to play along with the English on the ground at present reserved for the exclusive use of the English cricketers and which is much too large for their requirements?
Document 2
Source: London newspaper report of Prince Ranjitsinhji’s proposed visit to England, 1899.
This brilliant young Indian cricketer, Prince Ranjitsinhji, intends to return to England at Easter and will join the Sussex team—who are doubtless very glad to know this—as before. At the end of the season he will again visit India at the head of a team of English players—not too strong, but just strong enough; then in 1900 he will come back to Old England as captain of a team representative of Indian cricket.
Document 3
Source: Cecil Headlam, English cricketer and historian, Ten Thousand Miles through India and Burma: An Account of the Oxford University Cricket Tour, 1903.
First the hunter, the missionary, and the merchant, next the soldier and the politician, and then the cricketer—that is the history of British colonization. And of these civilizing influences, the last may, perhaps, be said to do least harm. Cricket unites the rulers and the ruled. It also provides a moral training, an education in pluck, and nerve, and self-restraint, far more valuable to the character of the ordinary native than the mere learning by heart of a play by Shakespeare.
Document 4
Source: Indian Social Reformer, Indian newspaper, Bombay (Mumbai), India, 1906.
The champion bowler* of the Hindus is a leather worker. Years back he was a bowler here in a European sports club. The upper-caste Hindus of an Indian cricket club found that although he was low-caste, his inclusion in the Hindu team would improve matters considerably with his pluck and spirit. They admitted him as their member.
Let the lesson learnt in sport be repeated in social and educational walks of life. Let all disuniting and denationalizing customs disappear and let India cease to be the laughing stock of the whole world.
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