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Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra Guha

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

Birth & Education

Ramachandra Guha's birth name was Ramachandran. Ramachandra Guha was borntoSubramania Ramdas Guha and Annapoorna Mehra in Dehradun in 1958. He is Tamil. Ramachandra Guha's father worked in the Forest Research Institute and his mother was a school teacher.

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

Ramachandra Guha's published his PhD thesis "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. They have two children. Their son, Kesava Guha, is a fiction writer.

From 1985 to 2000, Ramachandra Guha taught in universities across India, Europe, and North America. In 2019, he was a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Science. 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

Organizational Works

In 2004, Ramachandra Guha established the New India Foundation, a non-profit professional association (NPA) that studies modern India history, and also served as its Executive Trustee.

Literary Life

During his school days, Ramachandra Guha contributed to the school weekly Doon School Weekly, and ran the magazine History Times with his schoolmate Amitav Ghosh. Ramachandra Guha was involved in the study of modern Indian history, ecology, and cricket and wrote books on them. His books cover a wide range of topics including a global history of ecology, a biography of an anthropologist-activist, a social history of Indian cricket, and a social history of farmers in the Himalayas.

History

Ramachandra Guha wrote historical treatises on modern India. Ramachandra Guha published the book India after Gandhi in 2007. It was selected as the book of the year by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and Outlook magazines. The Hindu rated this book as one of the best non-fiction books of the decade (2010-2019). This book won the Sahitya Akademi Award for English Literature in 2011. It is an important book on modern India history.

Ramachandra Guha wrote the book Gandhi Before India in 2013. This book gives a picture of Gandhi's life from 1869-1914. In 2018, Guha wrote the series Gandhi-Years That Changed The World (1914-1948). In 2022, Guha wrote the book Rebels Against the Raj. Guha also wrote Patriots and Partisans (2012),a book on Westerners who supported the Indian freedom struggle and Democrats and Dissenters (2016), a volume of historical essays.

Ecology

Ramachandra Guha's doctoral thesis was based on the ecological struggle "Chipko movement". In 1999, Guha wrote a biographical book on the anthropologist Harry Verrier Holman Elwin. Guha also wrote the books Environmentalism: A Global History in 1999 and How Much Should a Person Consume? in 2006.

Cricket

Ramachandra Guha wrote cricket related books: A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport in 2002 and The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind in 2020. Guha also wrote articles on cricket in magazines.

Awards

  • 2001 - Leopold-Hidy Environmental History Prize for the essay Prehistory of Community Forestry in India
  • 2002 - Daily Telegraph prize for the book A Corner of a Foreign Field
  • 2003 - R.K Narayan Prize in Chennai Book Fair
  • 2008 - The American magazine Foreign Policy named Guha as one of the world's top 100 public intellectuals in May 2008. Guha was ranked 44th in a subsequent poll.
  • 2009 - Padma Bhushan Award
  • 2011 - Sahitya Akademi Award for the book India after Gandhi
  • 2014 - An honorary Doctor in Humanities from Yale University
  • 2015 - Fukuoka Asian Culture Award
  • 2019 - Honorary Foreign Member Award from The American Historical Association (AHA)

Place in Study Field

According to Jeyamohan "Ramachandra Guha is considered to be a foremost historian of Indian contemporary history. He is a historian who writes the history after discovering its dynamics, free from any pre-established political-sociological biases. He therefore presents democratic ideas in a way that goes beyond the viewpoints of the left and the right. Guha is a significant Gandhian historian as well. He also writes about environmental history and sports history. Guha bases his perspectives on a few core values. They are democracy, human rights, and harmonious living."

Books

Translated into Tamil

  • India Varalaru - Gandhiku Piragu (Two volumes) translated by R.P. Sarathy
  • India Ethainoki? translated by S. Natesan
  • Chutrusooliyal Ulagam Thaluviya Varalaru translated by K. Rajaiyan
  • Thenafricavil Gandhi translated by Sivasakthi Saravanan
  • Naveena Indiavin Sirpigal 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)

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