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{{short description|Indian historian and writer}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Ramachandra Guha
| image = Ramachandra Guha in 2016.png
| caption = Guha in 2016
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1958|04|29}}
| birth_place = [[Dehradun]], [[India]]<ref name="Scroll.in">{{Cite web|url=https://scroll.in/article/1005143/ramachandra-guha-celebrating-the-life-of-keshav-desiraju-a-true-nehruvian-indian|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-14|website=Scroll|publisher=[[Scroll.in]]|language=en|title=Ramachandra Guha: Celebrating the life of Keshav Desiraju – a true Nehruvian Indian}}</ref>
| death_date =
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| alma_mater = [[University of Delhi]] ([[B.A.|BA]], [[M.A.|MA]])<br/>[[Indian Institute of Management Calcutta|IIM Calcutta]] (Fellowship Program)
| occupation = Historian, author, public intellectual, distinguished University professor at [[Krea University]]
| notable_works = {{ubl|[[India After Gandhi]]|[[Gandhi Before India]]|[[Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World]]}}
| spouse = [[Sujata Keshavan]]
| website = {{URL|https://ramachandraguha.in/|ramachandraguha.in}}
| signature = Ramchandra_Guha_Signature.jpg
}}
'''Ramachandra "Ram" Guha'''{{Efn|Major news outlets calling the subject Ram Guha— <ref>{{Citation|title="Modi is a study in self love," Ram Guha at The Wire Dialogues|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzQU7zS2-gM |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/gzQU7zS2-gM |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|language=en|access-date=2021-09-05}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Ramachandra Guha|date=2020-11-23|title=When Rahul Dravid told Ram Guha to 'shut up' about cricket strategy, write history books|url=https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/rahul-dravid-ramachandra-guha-cricket-strategy-history-books/549327/|access-date=2021-09-05|website=ThePrint|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Advani|first=Rukun|title='He was what was called in those days a sports type': Ram Guha through the eyes of Rukun Advani|url=https://scroll.in/article/993565/he-was-what-was-called-in-those-days-a-sports-type-ram-guha-through-the-eyes-of-rukun-advani|access-date=2021-09-05|website=Scroll.in|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-06-12|title=Ramachandra Guha: Is Ram Guha's hate for Modi behind his racist stereotyping of Gujaratis?|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/beyond-the-headline/is-ram-guhas-hate-for-modi-behind-his-racist-stereotyping-of-gujaratis/|access-date=2021-09-05|website=Times of India Blog|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Opinion: In Response To Ram Guha's View Of Rahul Gandhi - by Salman Khurshid|url=https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/opinion-in-response-to-ram-guhas-view-of-rahul-gandhi-by-salman-khurshid-2463413|access-date=2021-09-05|website=NDTV.com}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=Mamata Must Not Behave Like Modi: Ram Guha|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H56sAv38kg4 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/H56sAv38kg4 |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|language=en|access-date=2021-09-05}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Pioneer|first=The|title=Celebration of a genius|url=https://www.dailypioneer.com/2021/sunday-edition/celebration-of-a-genius.html|access-date=2021-09-05|website=The Pioneer|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-01-18|title='Kerala did a disastrous thing by electing Rahul Gandhi':Ram Guha at KLF|url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/kerala-did-disastrous-thing-electing-rahul-gandhiram-guha-klf-116321|access-date=2021-09-05|website=The News Minute|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Nanda|first=Prashant K.|date=2018-10-16|title=Historian Ram Guha to join Ahmedabad University as professor|url=https://www.livemint.com/Politics/IuYTHEB6eZa67NaHvyFr5H/Historian-Ram-Guha-to-join-Ahmedabad-University-as-professor.html|access-date=2021-09-05|website=mint|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Quint|first=The|date=2019-12-19|title=CAA: Historian Ram Guha Detained, Says 'Rulers in Delhi Scared'|url=https://www.thequint.com/news/india/caa-ramachandra-guha-yogendra-yadav-detained-paranoid-rulers-in-delhi-are-scared|access-date=2021-09-05|website=TheQuint|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Ram Guha vs Salman Khurshid: Who you support? - Conversation - Legally India|url=https://www.legallyindia.com/convos/topic/174805-ram-guha-vs-salman-khurshid-who-you-support|access-date=2021-09-05|website=www.legallyindia.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Ram Guha retires hurt. 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Ram Guha thinks so|url=https://www.dailyo.in/politics/ramachandra-guha-on-the-sanghs-misappropriation-of-netaji/story/1/8686.html|access-date=2021-09-05|website=www.dailyo.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Desk|first=InsideSport|date=2017-06-01|title=Citing personal reasons, Ram Guha quits BCCI panel|url=https://www.insidesport.co/citing-personal-reasons-ram-guha-quits-bcci-panel/|access-date=2021-09-05|website=InsideSport|language=en-gb}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Patel|first=Aakar|date=2018-11-05|title=And then they came for Ram Guha|url=https://news.abplive.com/blog/and-then-they-came-for-ram-guha-776615-776615|access-date=2021-09-05|website=news.abplive.com|language=en}}</ref>}} (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian, environmentalist, writer and public intellectual whose research interests include [[social history|social]], [[political history|political]], [[contemporary history|contemporary]], [[Environmental history|environmental]] and [[cricket history]], and the field of [[economics]]. He is an important authority on the [[History of India (1947–present)|history of modern India]].

For the year 2011–12, he held a visiting position at the [[London School of Economics and Political Science]] (LSE), the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs. Guha was a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru. The [[American Historical Association]] (AHA) has conferred its Honorary Foreign Member prize for the year 2019 on Ramchandra Guha. He is the third Indian historian to be recognised by the association, joining the ranks of [[Romila Thapar]] and [[Jadunath Sarkar]], who received the honour in 2009 and 1952 respectively.

As one who covered wide range of subjects, Guha produced a three major books of modern India's socio-political history. Among them two, namely, [[Gandhi Before India]] (2013) and [[Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World]] (2018), are the two volumes of biography of [[Mahatma Gandhi]], the sole icon of the [[Indian independence movement]]. The other being [[India After Gandhi]] (2007), which accounts the history of India from 1947-2017, is a commercially and critically successful one.

He is a trustee of ''New India Foundation'' fellowship programme. He was appointed to [[Board of Control for Cricket in India|BCCI]]'s panel of administrators by the [[Supreme Court of India]] in January 2017 but stepped down from his position citing personal reasons five months later. A regular contributor to various academic journals, Guha has also written for ''[[The Caravan]]'' and ''[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]]'' magazines. His book [[India After Gandhi]] is read as much by aspirants to the Indian civil services examination.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Jaishankar|first=Dhruva|title=India's 5 most important public intellectuals – and what this list says about our national discourse|url=https://scroll.in/article/866705/five-wise-men-these-individuals-are-indias-most-important-public-intellectuals-today|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-13|website=Scroll.in|language=en-US}}</ref> He is a columnist for ''[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|The Telegraph]]'', ''[[Hindustan Times]]'' and Hindi daily newspaper ''[[Amar Ujala]]''.

==Early life ==
Guha was born on 29 April 1958 in [[Dehradun]]<ref name="Scroll.in">{{Cite web|url=https://scroll.in/article/1005143/ramachandra-guha-celebrating-the-life-of-keshav-desiraju-a-true-nehruvian-indian|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-14|website=Scroll|publisher=[[Scroll.in]]|language=en|title=Ramachandra Guha: Celebrating the life of Keshav Desiraju – a true Nehruvian Indian}}</ref> in a [[Tamil language|Tamil]] [[Brahmin]] family.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newslaundry.com/2017/06/14/response-ramchandra-guha-gandhi-caste|title = Does Ramachandra Guha have a caste?}}</ref> He was brought up in Dehradun, where his father Subramaniam Ramdas Guha worked at the [[Forest Research Institute (India)|Forest Research Institute]],<ref name="BS">{{Cite news |url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/lunch-with-bs-ramachandra-guha-107050801041_1.html |title=Lunch with BS: Ramachandra Guha |last=Bhandari |first=Bhupesh |date=8 May 2007 |work=[[Business Standard India]] |access-date=19 July 2018}}</ref><ref name="madhav-gadgil">{{Cite news |url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/ram-guha-a-radical-progressive/299987 |title=Ram Guha: A Radical Progressive |last=Gadgil |first=Madhav |date=9 April 2018 |work=[[Outlook India]] |access-date=19 July 2018}}</ref> and his mother was a high-school teacher. While he should have been named Subramaniam Ramachandra in keeping with Tamil name-keeping norms, his teachers at school, presumably while registering his name during admission, were not familiar with these and he came to be called Ramachandra Guha.<ref name="BS"/> He grew up in Dehradun, on the Forest Research Institute campus.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/who-milks-this-cow/282904 |title=Who Milks This Cow? |last=Guha |first=Ramachandra |date=19 November 2012 |access-date=19 July 2018 |magazine=Outlook India}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1071027/asp/opinion/story_8472620.asp |title=A Unique Trail - Twist in the tale of the search for an elusive book |last=Guha |first=Ramachandra |date=27 October 2007 |work=The Telegraph |access-date=19 July 2018}}</ref>

Guha studied at Cambrian Hall and [[The Doon School]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/why-the-dalai-lama-may-be-india-s-noblest-resident/story-bC3fLiyteosMwuEvIRkBsI.html |title=Why the Dalai Lama may be India's noblest resident |last=Guha |first=Ramachandra |date=30 January 2016 |work=Hindustan Times |access-date=20 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/dehradun/dosco-amitav-ghosh-celebrates-his-60th-birthday.html |title='Dosco' Amitav Ghosh celebrates his 60th Birthday |last=Chopra |first=Jaskiran |date=12 July 2016 |work=[[The Pioneer (India)|The Pioneer]] |access-date=20 July 2018}}</ref> At Doon, he was a contributor to the school newspaper ''[[The Doon School Weekly]]'', and edited a publication called ''History Times'' along with [[Amitav Ghosh]], later to become a noted writer.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thestatesman.com/features/nature-cricket-literature-history-1502519395.html |title=Of nature, cricket, literature and history |last=Chopra |first=Jaskiran |date=29 October 2017 |work=The Statesman |access-date=20 July 2018}}</ref><ref>'History of the Weekly' published by The Doon School (2009), p. 36.</ref> He graduated from [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi]] with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1977,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/the-shrinking-of-st-stephen-s/story-NkEEHvX9dlOTeqOgqOAz8O.html|title=The shrinking of St. Stephen's|date=11 August 2018}}</ref> and completed his master's in economics from the [[Delhi School of Economics]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/st-stephens-murder-in-the-cathedral/234958 |title=St Stephen's: Murder In The Cathedral? |last=Guha |first=Ramachandra |date=25 June 2007 |work=Outlook India |access-date=20 July 2018}}</ref> He then enrolled at the [[Indian Institute of Management Calcutta]], where he did a PhD on the social history of [[forestry]] in Uttarakhand, focusing on the [[Chipko movement]]. It was later published as ''The Unquiet Woods''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (also referred to as IIM Calcutta or IIMC) website|url=https://www.iimcal.ac.in/ramachandra-guha|website=www.iimcal.ac.in}}</ref>

==Career==
[[File:Ram Guha Doon School library.jpg|thumb|Guha delivering a talk at [[The Doon School]]'s Kilachand Library in 2017.]]Guha has authored books on a diverse range of subjects including Cricket, Environment, Politics, History, etc.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ramachandra Guha|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/67629.Ramachandra_Guha|access-date=20 April 2019|website=[[Goodreads.com]]}}</ref> Guha was a visiting professor at the [[Indian Institute of Science]] for a year from July, 2019<ref>{{Cite magazine|agency=Press Trust of India |date=July 2, 2019 |title=Ramachandra Guha to join IISc as visiting professor|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/news/story/ramachandra-guha-to-join-iisc-as-visiting-professor-1560448-2019-07-02|access-date=2021-11-20|magazine=India Today|language=en}}</ref> He is the trustee of New India Foundation fellowship programme which he himself conceptualised in 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-07|title=Ramachandra Guha: 'Each one of us has rejected close friends' for the NIF|url=https://lifestyle.livemint.com//news/talking-point/ramachandra-guha-each-one-of-us-has-rejected-close-friends-for-the-nif-111634475023316.html|access-date=2021-11-05|website=Mintlounge|language=en}}</ref> He has taught universities of [[Krea University|Krea]], [[Stanford University|Stanford]], [[Yale University|Yale]], [[Berlin Institute for Advanced Study]], [[Indian Institute of Science]], [[University of California, Berkeley|University of California at Berkeley]]. He held the Arné Naess Chair at the [[University of Oslo]], the Indo-American Community Chair at the [[University of California at Berkeley]], and the Philipe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at the [[London School of Economics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ramachandra Guha {{!}} Center for Contemporary South Asia|url=https://watson.brown.edu/southasia/people/ramachandra-guha|access-date=2021-11-20|website=watson.brown.edu}}</ref>

=== History of Modern India ===
Guha is the author of ''[[India after Gandhi]]'', published by [[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] and [[Ecco Press|Ecco]] in 2007. The book was an instant hit and is considered an essential literature in space of modern Indian history. It was chosen Book of the Year by ''[[The Economist]]'', ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' and ''[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook Magazine]]'', among others. The book was one of the best non-fiction books of the decade (2010–2019) as per ''[[The Hindu]]''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Best non-fiction books of the decade|newspaper=The Hindu|date=28 December 2019|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/best-non-fiction-books-of-the-decade/article30413098.ece}}</ref> The book won the 2011 [[List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for English|Sahitya Akademi Award for English]] for 'narrative history'.<ref name=":0">{{Cite press release|title=Poets Dominate Sahitya Akademi Awards 2011|publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]]|date=2011-12-21|url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/award-2011.pdf#3|access-date=2011-12-21|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508031321/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/award-2011.pdf|archive-date=2012-05-08}}.</ref>[[File:Ramachandra Guha.jpg|thumb|Guha at his book [[Makers of Modern India]]'s event]]

In October 2013, he published ''[[Gandhi Before India]]'', the first part of a two-volume biography of [[Mahatma Gandhi]] which documents life from his childhood to the two decades in South Africa; 1869-1914.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://penguin.co.in/book/uncategorized/gandhi-before-india/ |title=Gandhi Before India |year=2014 |publisher=Penguin India |isbn=978-0-1434-2341-6 |access-date=20 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/21/a-conversation-with-historian-ramachandra-guha | work=The New York Times | first=Basharat | last=Peer | title=A Conversation With: Historian Ramachandra Guha | date=21 October 2013}}</ref> In 2018, he published the standalone sequel ''[[Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948]]'' which deals with events from Gandhi coming back to India to his [[Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi|death]]. The book subsumes a lot of new archival material that were discovered only in the 21th century. It has an epilogue that discusses the role of Gandhi in contemporary world politics.

His books are amongst the most sought-after by history students and civil service aspirants in India.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Jaishankar|first=Dhruva|title=India's 5 most important public intellectuals – and what this list says about our national discourse|url=https://scroll.in/article/866705/five-wise-men-these-individuals-are-indias-most-important-public-intellectuals-today|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-13|website=Scroll.in|language=en-US|quote=Ramachandra Guha: Guha has written eloquently on history, politics, environmentalism, and cricket. No other writer is read as much by aspirants to the Indian civil services examination.}}</ref>

Guha published collection of essays; two of them being ''Patriots and Partisans'' (2012) and ''Democrats and Dissenters'' (2016). In 1999, he was offered to write a biography of [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]] which he declined.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ramachandra Guha|title=VIGNETTES OF VAJPAYEE, The Hindu|url=https://ramachandraguha.in/archives/vignettes-of-vajpayee-the-hindu.html|access-date=2021-11-20|website=::Welcome to Ramachandra Guha.in|language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Environment ===
Guha produced a biography of the anthropologist [[Verrier Elwin]] in 1999. He earned a Phd on the social history of [[forestry]] in Uttarakhand, focusing on the [[Chipko movement]]. In 2006, he authored ''How Much Should a Person Consume?''. In 2014, he wrote a book on [[environmentalism]] called ''Environmentalism: A Global History.''

=== Cricket ===
Guha has written extensively on [[cricket]] as a journalist and as a historian. His research into the social history of Indian cricket culminated in his work ''A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian history of a British Sport'' in 2002.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Guha|first=Ramachandra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PxCie1XxHPEC|title=A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport|date=2003|publisher=Picador|isbn=978-0-330-49117-4|language=en}}</ref> The book charts the development of [[cricket in India]] from its inception during the [[British Raj]] to its position in contemporary India as the nation's favourite pastime.[[File:Ramachandra guha.jpg|thumb|Guha in 2017]]

He was appointed to [[Board of Control for Cricket in India|BCCI]]'s panel of administrators by the [[Supreme Court of India]] on 30 January 2017, as part of the [[Lodha Committee]] reforms, only to resign in July of the same year.<ref>[http://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/ramachandra-guha-accepts-sc-s-nomination-to-bcci-s-panel-of-administrators/story-DimGN3nJQrDIVEtsPXgJyL.html "Ramachandra Guha accepts SC’s nomination to BCCI’s panel of administrators"], ''Hindustan Times'', 30 January 2017.</ref>

In November 2020, he published ''The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind'', a personal account of the transformation of cricket in India, across all levels at which the game is played: school, college, club, state, country and presents vivid portraits of local heroes, provincial icons, and international stars through the 50 years he has been following the game. The book blends memoir, anecdote, reportage, and political critique.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Guha|first=Ramachandra|url=https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780008422509/the-commonwealth-of-cricket-a-lifelong-love-affair-with-the-most-subtle-and-sophisticated-game-known-to-humankind/|title=The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind|date=2020|publisher=Harper Collins|isbn=978-93-90327-28-7|language=en}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
[[File:Ramachandra Guha at Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad State Conference 2019, Pramadam, Pathanamthitta, Kerala, India.jpg|thumb|Ramachandra Guha at Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad State Conference 2019, Pramadam, Pathanamthitta, Kerala, India]]
Guha is domiciled in the city of [[Bengaluru]] and frequently mentions about the same in his columns. Guha is married to the graphic designer [[Sujata Keshavan]], and they have two children. Their son Keshava Guha became a fiction author with the release of ''Accidental Magic'' at the 2019 Bangalore Literature Festival.<ref>Vidya Iyengar (11 November 2019), [https://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/books/2019/nov/11/could-have-been-compared-to-my-father-if-he-wrote-fiction-author-keshava-guha-2059926.html "Could have been compared to my father if he wrote fiction: Author Keshava Guha"], ''The News Indian Express''. Retrieved 28 January 2019.</ref>

==Awards and recognition==
*His essay, "Prehistory of Community Forestry in India", was awarded the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the [[American Society for Environmental History]] for 2001.
*''[[A Corner of a Foreign Field]]'' was awarded the ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'' Cricket Society Book of the Year prize for 2002.
*He won the [[R. K. Narayan]] Prize at the [[Chennai Book Fair]] in 2003.
*The US magazine ''[[Foreign Policy]]'' named him as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in May 2008. In the poll that followed, Guha was placed 44th.<ref>[https://foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4293 Foreign Policy: Top 100 Intellectuals] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100125121040/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4293 |date=25 January 2010 }}</ref>
* [[Padma Bhushan]] in 2009, India's third highest civilian award.<ref>{{cite web|title=Padma Bhushan for Shekhar Gupta, Abhinav Bindra|date=25 January 2009|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/padma-bhushan-for-shekhar-gupta-abhinav-bindra/415108|access-date=26 January 2009}}</ref>
*2011 [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] for [[India after Gandhi]].<ref>{{Cite press release|title=POETS DOMINATE SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARDS 2011|publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]]|date=21 December 2011|url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/award-2011.pdf|access-date=21 December 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508031321/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/award-2011.pdf|archive-date=8 May 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
*In 2014, Guha was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities by [[Yale University]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Yale Awards 12 Honorary Degrees at 2014 Graduation|url=http://news.yale.edu/2014/05/19/yale-awards-12-honorary-degrees-2014-graduation|work=YaleNews|date=19 May 2014|location= New Haven, Connecticut}}</ref>
* [[Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize]], 2015<ref>{{cite web|title=Historian Ramachandra Guha Selected for Japan's Fukuoka Prize|url=http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/historian-ramachandra-guha-selected-for-japans-fukuoka-prize-773544|publisher=[[NDTV]]|access-date=21 June 2015}}</ref>
*The American Historical Association (AHA) has conferred its Honorary Foreign Member prize for the year 2019 on Ramchandra Guha.<ref>{{cite web |title=Honorary Foreign Member Recipient |url=https://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/past-recipients/honorary-foreign-member-recipients |website=historians.org |publisher=American Historical association |access-date=1 March 2021}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
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* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = Wickets in the East | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]] | location = India | year = 1992 | isbn = 978-0-19-562809-8 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = ''Spin and Other Turns''| publisher = Penguin India | location = India | year = 2000 | isbn = 978-0-14-024720-6 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra |last2 = Vaidyanathan | first2 = T.G.|title = ''An Indian Cricket Omnibus''| publisher = [[Oxford University Press]] | location = India | year = 1994 | isbn = 978-0-19-563427-3 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = ''The Picador Book of Cricket'' | publisher = Pan Macmillan | location = India| year = 2001 | isbn = 978-0-330-39613-4 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = ''A Corner of a Foreign Field: An Indian history of a British sport'' | publisher = Picador | year = 2004 | isbn = 978-0-330-49117-4}}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = ''The States of Indian Cricket: Anecdotal Histories'' | publisher = Permanent Black | year = 2005 | isbn = 978-81-7824-108-1}}
* ''An Indian cricket century'' (Editor, works of [[Sujit Mukherjee]], 2002)
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya | publisher = [[University of California Press]] | location = Berkeley; Oxford University Press (OUP) | year = 1989 | isbn = 978-0-520-22235-9 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | last2 = Gadgil | first2 = Madhav| title = [[This Fissured Land|This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India]] | publisher = [[University of California Press]] | location = Berkeley; Oxford University Press (OUP) | year = 1993 | isbn = 978-0-520-08296-0 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra |last2 = Gadgil | first2 = Madhav|title = ''Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India'' | publisher = Penguin India | location = India | year = 1995 | isbn = 978-0-415-12524-6 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra |last2 = Alier | first2 = Joan Martinez|title =''Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays North and South'' | publisher = Penguin India | location = India | year = 1997 | isbn = 978-1-85383-329-8 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = ''Social Ecology'' | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]] | location = India | year = 1998 | isbn = 978-0-19-564454-8 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | last2 = Arnold | first2 = David |title = ''Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia'' | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]] | year = 1998 | isbn = 978-0-19-564075-5 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = ''Savaging the Civilized: [[Verrier Elwin]], his tribals and India'' | publisher = [[University of California Press]] | location = Berkeley; Oxford University Press (OUP) | year = 1999 | isbn = 978-0-19-564781-5 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | last2 = Krishnan | first2 = M |title = ''Nature's Spokesman: M. Krishnan and Indian Wildlife'' | publisher = Picador | year = 2001 | isbn = 978-0-19-565911-5 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = ''How Much Should a Person Consume?: Thinking Through the Environment'' | publisher = [[University of California Press]] | location = Berkeley; Oxford University Press (OUP) | year = 2006 | isbn = 978-93-5009-259-0 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = ''Environmentalism: A Global History'' | publisher = Penguin UK | location = United Kingdom| year = 2014 | isbn = 978-0-321-01169-5 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = ''Makers of Modern India'' | publisher = Penguin India | location = India | year = 2012 | isbn = 978-0-14-341924-2 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = ''[[India after Gandhi: The history of the world's largest democracy]]'' | publisher = Picador | year = 2007 | isbn = 978-0-330-50554-3 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra |title = ''Patriots & Partisans '' | publisher = Penguin | year = 2012 | isbn = 978-0-670-08386-2 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra |title = ''Gandhi Before India '' | publisher = Penguin | year = 2013 | isbn = 978-0-670-08387-9 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = ''An Anthropologist Among the Marxists, and other essays'' | publisher = Orient Blackswan | location = New Delhi, India | year = 2000 | isbn = 978-81-7824-001-5 }}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = ''The Last Liberal and Other Essays'' | publisher = Permanent Black | year = 2004 | isbn = 978-81-7824-073-2}}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | last2 = Parry | first2 = Jonathan P| title = ''Institutions and Inequalities: Essays in Honour of [[Andre Beteille]]'' | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]] | year = 2011 | isbn = 978-0-19-807552-3}}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra |title=Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World, 1914-1948 |date=2018 |publisher=Knopf |isbn=978-0-385-53231-0}}
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra |title=The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind |date=2020 |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=978-93-90327-28-7}}
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== See also ==
* [[List of Indian writers]]

== Notes ==
{{Notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://ramachandraguha.in/ Ramachandra Guha's website]
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