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| name               = Ramachandra Guha&lt;br /&gt;
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| birth_place        = [[Dehradun]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;(now in [[Uttarakhand]], [[India]])&lt;br /&gt;
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| occupation         = Historian,  Distinguished University professor at [[Krea University]]&lt;br /&gt;
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| spouse             = [[Sujata Keshavan]]&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Ramachandra Guha&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (born 29 April 1958) is an [[India]]n historian, writer and public intellectual&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite news|last=Menon|first=Suresh|date=2020-11-24|title=A fan’s travelogue &amp;amp; a historian’s clarifications|language=en-IN|work=[[The Hindu]]|url=https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/a-fans-travelogue-a-historians-clarifications/article33171834.ece|access-date=2021-06-20|issn=0971-751X}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite web|date=2020-09-01|others=[[Press Trust of India]]|title=Ramachandra Guha to come out with new book on cricket|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/books-and-literature/ramachandra-guha-to-come-out-with-new-book-on-cricket-6578893/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-20|website=[[The Indian Express]]|language=en}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; whose research interests include [[social history|social]], [[political history|political]], [[contemporary history|contemporary]], [[Environmental history|environmental]] and [[cricket history]], and the field of [[economics]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[https://web.archive.org/web/20170126100907/http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/indias-survival-miracle-we-proved-western-analysts-wrong-ramachandra-guha-56308]&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He is also a columnist for &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|The Telegraph]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Hindustan Times]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; and Hindi daily newspaper &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Amar Ujala]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/why-there-s-no-need-to-be-nostalgic-for-an-undivided-india/story-6WU6Es7KGGKIUoI66SRgCK.html|title=Why there&amp;#039;s no need to be nostalgic for an undivided India|work=Hindustan Times|author=Ramachandra Guha|date=9 February 2017 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/not-the-emergency-by-any-stretch-of-the-imagination/story-ZebMVAS6XmIgrc3TTiP6AN.html|title=Not the Emergency by any stretch of the imagination|website=Hindustantimes.com}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;indiatogether&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.indiatogether.org/obits-op-ed|title=India Together: A managed mediaRamachandra Guha - 20 May 2006|website=Indiatogether.org|access-date=20 April 2019}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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A regular contributor to various academic journals, Guha has also written for &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Caravan]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; magazines. 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.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web|title=Dr. Ramachandra Guha|publisher=London School of Economics and Political Science|url=http://www.lse.ac.uk/IDEAS/people/bios/GuhaRamachandra.aspx|date=2011|access-date=6 October 2012}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; His latest book is &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (2018), the second part of his two-volume biography of [[M. K. Gandhi]]. It is a follow-up to the acclaimed &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Gandhi Before India]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (2013). His large body of work, covering a wide range of fields and yielding a number of rational insights, has made him a significant figure in Indian historical studies, and Guha is valued as one of the major historians of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.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.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite web|last=FP Staff|date=October 8, 2019|title=Ramchandra Guha receives Honorary Foreign Member prize from American Historical Association|url=https://www.firstpost.com/living/ramchandra-guha-receives-honorary-foreign-member-prize-from-american-historical-association-7467831.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-27|website=[[Firstpost]]}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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He was appointed to [[Board of Control for Cricket in India|BCCI]]&amp;#039;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.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[http://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/ramachandra-guha-accepts-sc-s-nomination-to-bcci-s-panel-of-administrators/story-DimGN3nJQrDIVEtsPXgJyL.html &amp;quot;Ramachandra Guha accepts SC’s nomination to BCCI’s panel of administrators&amp;quot;], &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Hindustan Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, 30 January 2017.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Early life and education==&lt;br /&gt;
Guha was born on 29 April 1958 at [[Dehradun]], [[Uttar Pradesh]] (now in [[Uttarakhand]]), in a Tamil Brahmin family.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.newslaundry.com/2017/06/14/response-ramchandra-guha-gandhi-caste&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He was brought up in Dehradun, where his father Subramaniam Ramdas Guha worked at the [[Forest Research Institute (India)|Forest Research Institute]],&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;BS&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{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}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;madhav-gadgil&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{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}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and his mother was a high-school teacher.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}} 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.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;BS&amp;quot;/&amp;gt; He grew up in Dehradun, on the Forest Research Institute campus.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{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}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{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}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Guha studied at Cambrian Hall and [[The Doon School]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{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&amp;#039;s noblest resident |last=Guha |first=Ramachandra  |date=30 January 2016 |work=Hindustan Times |access-date=20 July 2018}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite news |url=https://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/dehradun/dosco-amitav-ghosh-celebrates-his-60th-birthday.html |title=&amp;#039;Dosco&amp;#039; 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}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; At Doon, he was a contributor to the school newspaper &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[The Doon School Weekly]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, and edited a publication called &amp;#039;&amp;#039;History Times&amp;#039;&amp;#039; along with [[Amitav Ghosh]], later to become a noted writer.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{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}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;&amp;#039;History of the Weekly&amp;#039; published by The Doon School (2009), p. 36.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He graduated from [[St. Stephen&amp;#039;s College, Delhi]] with a bachelor&amp;#039;s degree in economics in 1977,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/the-shrinking-of-st-stephen-s/story-NkEEHvX9dlOTeqOgqOAz8O.html|title=The shrinking of St. Stephen&amp;#039;s}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and completed his master&amp;#039;s in economics from the [[Delhi School of Economics]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite news |url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/st-stephens-murder-in-the-cathedral/234958 |title=St Stephen&amp;#039;s: Murder In The Cathedral? |last=Guha |first=Ramachandra  |date=25 June 2007 |work=Outlook India |access-date=20 July 2018}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; 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 &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Unquiet Woods&amp;#039;&amp;#039;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==Books==&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Ram Guha Doon School library.jpg|thumb|Guha delivering a talk at [[The Doon School]]&amp;#039;s Kilachand Library in 2017.]]&lt;br /&gt;
Guha has authored the chapter &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The VHP Needs To Hear The Condemnation Of The Hindu Middle Ground&amp;#039;&amp;#039; in the book &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Gujarat The making of a tragedy|Gujarat: The making of a tragedy]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, which was edited by [[Siddharth Varadarajan]] and published by Penguin. The book is about the [[2002 Gujarat riots]].&lt;br /&gt;
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Guha is the author of &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[India after Gandhi]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, published by [[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] and [[Ecco Press|Ecco]] in 2007. This book has been translated into Hindi in two volumes as &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Bharat: Gandhi Ke Baad&amp;#039;&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Bharat: Nehru Ke Baad&amp;#039;&amp;#039; and published by Penguin. The [[Tamil language|Tamil]] version of the book is published in the name &amp;quot;இந்திய வரலாறு காந்திக்குப் பிறகு ( பாகம் 1 &amp;amp; 2)&amp;quot; (&amp;quot;Indhiya varalaaru Gandhikku pin - Part 1 &amp;amp; 2&amp;quot;) by Kizhakku and translated by R. P. Sarathy. The [[Bengali language|Bengali]] version of the book is published in the name &amp;quot;গাঁধী-উত্তর ভারতবর্ষ&amp;quot; by Ananda Publishers Private Limited and translated by Ashish Lahiri.&lt;br /&gt;
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Guha also published a collection of essays titled &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Patriots and Partisans&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book|url=https://penguin.co.in/book/uncategorized/patriots-and-partisans/ |title=Patriots And Partisans |publisher=[[Penguin India]] |isbn=978-0-1434-2114-6|access-date=20 April 2019}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; in November 2012.&lt;br /&gt;
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In October 2013, he published &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Gandhi Before India]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, the first part of a planned two-volume biography of [[Mahatma Gandhi]] which describes life from his childhood to the two decades in South Africa.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{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}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{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}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Another collection of essays under the title &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Democrats and Dissenters&amp;#039;&amp;#039; was released in September 2016. Guha has authored books on a diverse range of subjects including Cricket, Environment, Politics, History, etc.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/67629.Ramachandra_Guha|title=Ramachandra Guha|website=[[Goodreads.com]]|access-date=20 April 2019}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In 2018, Guha published &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, a sequel to his 2013 book, which deals with events from Gandhi coming back to India to his death. It also has an epilogue that discusses the role of Gandhi in contemporary world politics.&lt;br /&gt;
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His books are among the most sought after for history students and civil service aspirants in India.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Cricket ==&lt;br /&gt;
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 &amp;#039;&amp;#039;A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian history of a British Sport&amp;#039;&amp;#039; in 2002.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PxCie1XxHPEC|title=A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport|last=Guha|first=Ramachandra|date=2003|publisher=Picador|isbn=9780330491174|language=en}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; 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&amp;#039;s favourite pastime.&lt;br /&gt;
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In July 2017 Guha stepped down from his position as a [[Board of Control for Cricket in India|BCCI]] administrator, citing personal reasons.&lt;br /&gt;
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In November 2020, he published &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, 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.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite book|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|last=Guha|first=Ramachandra|date=2020|publisher=Harper Collins|isbn=978-9390327287|language=en}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Personal life==&lt;br /&gt;
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 &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Accidental Magic&amp;#039;&amp;#039; at the 2019 Bangalore Literature Festival.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;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 &amp;quot;Could have been compared to my father if he wrote fiction: Author Keshava Guha&amp;quot;], &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The News Indian Express&amp;#039;&amp;#039;. Retrieved 28 January 2019.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Awards and recognition==&lt;br /&gt;
[[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]]&lt;br /&gt;
*His essay, &amp;quot;Prehistory of Community Forestry in India&amp;quot;, was awarded the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the [[American Society for Environmental History]] for 2001.&lt;br /&gt;
*&amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[A Corner of a Foreign Field]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; was awarded the &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Daily Telegraph]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; Cricket Society Book of the Year prize for 2002.&lt;br /&gt;
*He won the [[R. K. Narayan]] Prize at the [[Chennai Book Fair]] in 2003.&lt;br /&gt;
*The US magazine &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[Foreign Policy]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; named him as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in May 2008.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;[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 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; In the poll that followed, Guha was placed 44th.&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Padma Bhushan]] in 2009, India&amp;#039;s third highest civilian award.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web|title=Padma Bhushan for Shekhar Gupta, Abhinav Bindra|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/padma-bhushan-for-shekhar-gupta-abhinav-bindra/415108|access-date=26 January 2009}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*2011 [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] for [[India after Gandhi]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{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}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite news|title=Guha wins it for narrative history|url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/books/article2735882.ece|work=The Hindu|date=21 December 2011|location=Chennai, India}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*In 2014, Guha was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities by [[Yale University]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{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}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize]], 2015&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web|title=Historian Ramachandra Guha Selected for Japan&amp;#039;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}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
*The American Historical Association (AHA) has conferred its Honorary Foreign Member prize for the year 2019 on Ramchandra Guha.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{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}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Bibliography==&lt;br /&gt;
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* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = Wickets in the East | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]]  | location = India | year = 1992 | isbn = 9780195628098 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Spin and Other Turns&amp;#039;&amp;#039;| publisher = Penguin India  | location = India | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780140247206 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra |last2 = Vaidyanathan | first2 = T.G.|title = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;An Indian Cricket Omnibus&amp;#039;&amp;#039;| publisher = [[Oxford University Press]]  | location = India | year = 1994 | isbn = 9780195634273 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Picador Book of Cricket&amp;#039;&amp;#039; | publisher = Pan Macmillan  | location = India| year = 2001 | isbn = 9780330396134 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;A Corner of a Foreign Field: An Indian history of a British sport&amp;#039;&amp;#039; | publisher = Picador | year = 2004 | isbn = 978-0330491174}}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The States of Indian Cricket: Anecdotal Histories&amp;#039;&amp;#039; | publisher = Permanent Black | year = 2005 | isbn = 9788178241081}}&lt;br /&gt;
* &amp;#039;&amp;#039;An Indian cricket century&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (Editor, works of [[Sujit Mukherjee]], 2002) &lt;br /&gt;
* {{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 = 9780520222359 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{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 = 9780520082960 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra |last2 = Gadgil | first2 = Madhav|title = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India&amp;#039;&amp;#039;  | publisher = Penguin India  | location = India | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780415125246 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra |last2 = Alier | first2 = Joan Martinez|title =&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays North and South&amp;#039;&amp;#039; | publisher = Penguin India  | location = India | year = 1997 | isbn = 9781853833298 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Social Ecology&amp;#039;&amp;#039; | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]]  | location = India | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780195644548 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | last2 = Arnold | first2 = David |title = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia&amp;#039;&amp;#039; | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]] | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780195640755 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Savaging the Civilized: [[Verrier Elwin]], his tribals and India&amp;#039;&amp;#039; | publisher = [[University of California Press]]  | location = Berkeley; Oxford University Press (OUP) | year = 1999 | isbn = 9780195647815 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | last2 = Krishnan | first2 = M |title = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Nature&amp;#039;s Spokesman: M. Krishnan and Indian Wildlife&amp;#039;&amp;#039; | publisher = Picador | year = 2001 | isbn = 9780195659115 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;How Much Should a Person Consume?: Thinking Through the Environment&amp;#039;&amp;#039; | publisher = [[University of California Press]] | location = Berkeley; Oxford University Press (OUP) | year = 2006 | isbn = 9789350092590 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Environmentalism: A Global History&amp;#039;&amp;#039; | publisher = Penguin UK  | location = United Kingdom| year = 2014 | isbn = 9780321011695 }} &lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Makers of Modern India&amp;#039;&amp;#039; | publisher = Penguin India  | location = India | year = 2012 | isbn = 9780143419242 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;[[India after Gandhi: The history of the world&amp;#039;s largest democracy]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; | publisher = Picador | year = 2007 | isbn = 9780330505543 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra  |title = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Patriots &amp;amp; Partisans &amp;#039;&amp;#039; | publisher = Penguin | year = 2012 | isbn = 9780670083862 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra |title = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Gandhi Before India &amp;#039;&amp;#039; | publisher = Penguin | year = 2013 | isbn = 978-0670083879 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;An Anthropologist Among the Marxists, and other essays&amp;#039;&amp;#039; | publisher = Orient Blackswan  | location = New Delhi, India | year = 2000 | isbn = 9788178240015 }}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;The Last Liberal and Other Essays&amp;#039;&amp;#039; | publisher = Permanent Black | year = 2004 | isbn = 9788178240732}}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra  | last2 = Parry | first2 = Jonathan P| title = &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Institutions and Inequalities: Essays in Honour of [[Andre Beteille]]&amp;#039;&amp;#039; | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]]  | year = 2011 | isbn = 9780198075523}}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra |title=Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World, 1914-1948 |date=2018 |publisher=Knopf |isbn=978-0385532310}}&lt;br /&gt;
* {{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=978-9390327287}}&lt;br /&gt;
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* [http://ramachandraguha.in/ Ramachandra Guha&amp;#039;s website]&lt;br /&gt;
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