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Ramachandra Guha

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Born: April 28 1958

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Ramachandra Guha was born in Dehradun in 1958, and educated in Delhi and Calcutta. He has taught at the University of Oslo, Stanford, and Yale, and at the Indian Institute of Science. He has been a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and also served as the Indo-American Community Chair Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

After a peripatetic academic career, with five jobs in ten years on three continents, Guha settled down to become a full-time writer based in Bangalore. His books cover a wide range of themes, including a global history of environmentalism, a biography of an anthropologist-activist, a social history of Indian cricket, and a social history of Himalayan peasants.

Guha’s books and essays have been translated into more than twenty languages. The prizes they have won include the U.K. Cricket Society’s Literary Award and the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society of Environmental History.

Ramachandra Guha

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Born: April 28 1958

Website: Go to Website

Twitter: Go to Twitter Account

Ramachandra Guha was born in Dehradun in 1958, and educated in Delhi and Calcutta. He has taught at the University of Oslo, Stanford, and Yale, and at the Indian Institute of Science. He has been a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and also served as the Indo-American Community Chair Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

After a peripatetic academic career, with five jobs in ten years on three continents, Guha settled down to become a full-time writer based in Bangalore. His books cover a wide range of themes, including a global history of environmentalism, a biography of an anthropologist-activist, a social history of Indian cricket, and a social history of Himalayan peasants.

Guha’s books and essays have been translated into more than twenty languages. The prizes they have won include the U.K. Cricket Society’s Literary Award and the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society of Environmental History.

Books from Ramachandra Guha

Makers of Modern India

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Patriots and Partisans

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Gandhi Before India

4.1/5 ( ratings)

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

4.3/5 ( ratings)

A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Makers Of Modern Asia

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Environmentalism: A Global History

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

Verdicts on Nehru: The Rise and Fall of A Reputation (Penguin Petit) (e-Single)

This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India

3.8/5 ( ratings)

भारत गाँधी के बाद: दुनिया के विशालतम लोकतंत्र का इतिहास [Bharat Gandhi Ke Baad: Duniya ke Vishalatam Loktantr ka Itihaas]

3.6/5 ( ratings)

भारत नेहरू के बाद: दुनिया के विशालतम लोकतंत्र का इतिहास [Bharat Nehru ke Baad: Duniya ke Vishaaltam Loktantra ka Itihaas]

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Ecology and Equity

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Use and Abuse of Nature: Incorporating This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India and Ecology and Equity

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Adivasi Question Issues of Land, Forest and Livelihood

3.4/5 ( ratings)

An Indian Cricket Century

4.6/5 ( ratings)

The National Interest - January/February 2011

Etnoconservação: novos rumos para a proteção da natureza nos trópicos

Turning Crimson At Premier's