Ramachandra Guha

இந்தப் பக்கத்தை தமிழில் வாசிக்க: ராமச்சந்திர குஹா ‎

Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha (Born April 29, 1958) is a writer, modern Indian historian, environmentalist, professor, columnist, journalist. Ramachandra Guha writes studies on environment, society, politics and cricket.

Birth, Education

Ramachandra Guha's birth name was Ramachandran. Ramachandra Guha was born to Subramania Ramdas Guha and Annapoorna Mehra in Dehradun in 1958. He belongs to Tamil Nadu. Ramachandra Guha's father worked in Forest Research Institute and his mother was a school teacher.

Ramachandra Guha finished his schooling at Cambrian Hall, Doon School, obtained his Bachelors in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and completed his Masters in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics. Ramachandra Guha received his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, studying the history of the Chipko movement in the forests of Uttaranchal.

Ramachandra Guha's published his PhD thesis titled 'The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya".

Personal Life

Ramachandra Guha with his wife Sujatha Kesavan

Ramachandra Guha married Sujatha Kesavan, a graphic designer and they have two children. Their son Kesava Guha is a fictional writer. From 1985 to 2000, Ramachandra Guha taught in universities in India, Europe and North America. In 2019, he was a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Science. Ramachandra Guha has been a visiting professor at Krea, Stanford, Yale, Berlin Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science and University of California, Berkeley. Ramachandra Guha currently resides in Bangalore.

Responsibilities Held

• Member of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Research Institute, Germany
• Arné Naess Chair at the University of Oslo
• Indo-American Community Chair at the University of California, Berkeley
• Philip Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at the London School of Economics
• Appointed to Lodha Committee Panel headed by Vinod Roy, by the Supreme Court in 2017 for reforming the BCCI

Books

Translated into Tamil

• India Varalaru - Gandhiku Piragu (Two volumes) translated by R.P. Sarathy
• India Ehainoki? translated by செ.நடேசன்)
• Chutrusooliyal Ulagam Thaluviya Varalaru translated by K. Rajaiyan
• Thenafricavil Gandhi translated by Sivasakthi Saravanan
• நவீன இந்தியாவின் சிற்பிகள் translated by V. Krishnamoorthy
• Nugarvenum Perumpasi translated by Poppu
• Verrier Elwinum Avarathu Palamkudiyinarum translated by Velu Rajagopal
• India Varalatril Siruponmaiyinar translated by R.P. Sarathy

English

History

• Savaging the Civilized: Verrier Elwin, his tribals and India (Oxford University Press, University of California Press, 1999)
• Makers of Modern India. India: Penguin India (2012)
• India after Gandhi: The history of the world's largest democracy (2007)
• Patriots & Partisans (Penguin) (2012)
• Gandhi Before India (Penguin) (2013)
• An Anthropologist Among the Marxists, and other essays (Orient Blackswan, 2000)
• The Last Liberal and Other Essays. Permanent Black (2004)
• Institutions and Inequalities: Essays in Honour of Andre Beteille (Oxford University Press, Along with Parry, Jonathan P, 2011)
• Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World, 1914-1948 (2018)

Environment

• The Use and Abuse of Nature (along with Madav Gadkil)
• The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya (Oxford University Press, 1989)
• This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India (Oxford University Press, Along with Madhav Gadgil, 1993)
• Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India (Penguin India, Along with Madav gadgil)
• Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays North and South (Penguin India, along with Alier, Joan Martinez, 1997)
• Social Ecology Oxford University Press (1998)
• Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia (Oxford University Press, Along with Arnold, David, 1998)
• Nature's Spokesman: M. Krishnan and Indian Wildlife (Along with Krishnan, M, 2001)
• How Much Should a Person Consume?: Thinking Through the Environment (Oxford University Press, 2006)
• Environmentalism: A Global History (Penguin, 2014)

Cricket

• Wickets in the East (Oxford University Press) (1992)
• Spin and Other Turns (Penguin India) (2000)
• An Indian Cricket Omnibus (Oxford University, along with Vaidyanathan, T.G. 1994)
• The Picador Book of Cricket (Pan Macmillan, 2001)
• A Corner of a Foreign Field: An Indian history of a British sport. Picador (2004)
• The States of Indian Cricket: Anecdotal Histories. Permanent Black (2005)
• An Indian cricket century (Sujit Mukherjee, 2002)
• The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind. (Harper Collins, 2020)

References

• Ramachandra Guha: Website
• Ramachandra Guha: Twitter
• ஜெயமோகன் குகாவை அறிதல்
• ராமச்சந்திர குகா கட்டுரைகள் அருஞ்சொல் இதழ்
• காந்தி- இந்திரா குகா கட்டுரை
• குகா டி.ஆர் நாகராஜ் உரையாடல்
• காந்தியும் கறுப்பினத்தவரும்
• நவீன இந்தியாவை உருவாக்கியவர்கள்
• நவீன இந்தியாவை உருவாக்கியவர்கள்
• காந்தியை கையிலிருந்து நழுவிய தேசம்
• Talk on 'History Beyond Chauvinism' by Dr. Ramchandra Guha: Youtube
• The Caravan: RAMACHANDRA GUHA essays
• Book review: 'The Last Liberal and Other Essays' by Ramachandra Guha: India Today
• Articles by Ramachandra Guha: Muck rack
• Ramachandra Guha essays: Research Gate

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