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Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra Guha
	Guha in 2016
Born	29 April 1958 (age 68); Dehradun, India
Alma mater	University of Delhi (BA, MA); IIM Calcutta (Fellowship Program)
Occupation	Historian, author, public intellectual, distinguished University professor at Krea University
Notable work	India After Gandhi; Gandhi Before India; Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World;
Spouse(s)	Sujata Keshavan
Website	ramachandraguha.in
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Ramachandra "Ram" Guha^{[lower-alpha 1]} (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian, environmentalist, writer and public intellectual whose research interests include social, political, contemporary, environmental and cricket history, and the field of economics. He is an important authority on the 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 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 magazines. His book India After Gandhi is read as much by aspirants to the Indian civil services examination.^[22] He is a columnist for The Telegraph, Hindustan Times and Hindi daily newspaper Amar Ujala.

Early life

Guha was born on 29 April 1958 in Dehradun^[1] in a Tamil Brahmin family.^[23] He was brought up in Dehradun, where his father Subramaniam Ramdas Guha worked at the Forest Research Institute,^[24]^[25] 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.^[24] He grew up in Dehradun, on the Forest Research Institute campus.^[26]^[27]

Guha studied at Cambrian Hall and The Doon School.^[28]^[29] 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.^[30]^[31] He graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1977,^[32] and completed his master's in economics from the Delhi School of Economics.^[33] 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.^[34]

Career

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.^[35] Guha was a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Science for a year from July, 2019^[36] He is the trustee of New India Foundation fellowship programme which he himself conceptualised in 2004.^[37] He has taught universities of Krea, Stanford, Yale, Berlin Institute for Advanced Study, Indian Institute of Science, 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.^[38]

History of Modern India

Guha is the author of India after Gandhi, published by Macmillan and 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 Magazine, among others. The book was one of the best non-fiction books of the decade (2010–2019) as per The Hindu.^[39] The book won the 2011 Sahitya Akademi Award for English for 'narrative history'.^[40]

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.^[41]^[42] 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 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.^[43]

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.^[44]

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.^[45] 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.

He was appointed to 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.^[46]

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.^[47]

Personal life

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.^[48]

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.^[49]
Padma Bhushan in 2009, India's third highest civilian award.^[50]
2011 Sahitya Akademi Award for India after Gandhi.^[51]
In 2014, Guha was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities by Yale University^[52]
Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, 2015^[53]
The American Historical Association (AHA) has conferred its Honorary Foreign Member prize for the year 2019 on Ramchandra Guha.^[54]

Bibliography

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

Notes

↑ Major news outlets calling the subject Ram Guha— ^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "Ramachandra Guha: Celebrating the life of Keshav Desiraju – a true Nehruvian Indian". Scroll. Scroll.in. Retrieved 14 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
↑ "Modi is a study in self love," Ram Guha at The Wire Dialogues, archived from the original on 21 December 2021, retrieved 5 September 2021
↑ Ramachandra Guha (23 November 2020). "When Rahul Dravid told Ram Guha to 'shut up' about cricket strategy, write history books". ThePrint. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
↑ Advani, Rukun. "'He was what was called in those days a sports type': Ram Guha through the eyes of Rukun Advani". Scroll.in. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
↑ "Ramachandra Guha: Is Ram Guha's hate for Modi behind his racist stereotyping of Gujaratis?". Times of India Blog. 12 June 2020. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
↑ "Opinion: In Response To Ram Guha's View Of Rahul Gandhi - by Salman Khurshid". NDTV.com. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
↑ Mamata Must Not Behave Like Modi: Ram Guha, archived from the original on 21 December 2021, retrieved 5 September 2021
↑ Pioneer, The. "Celebration of a genius". The Pioneer. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
↑ "'Kerala did a disastrous thing by electing Rahul Gandhi':Ram Guha at KLF". The News Minute. 18 January 2020. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
↑ Nanda, Prashant K. (16 October 2018). "Historian Ram Guha to join Ahmedabad University as professor". mint. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
↑ Quint, The (19 December 2019). "CAA: Historian Ram Guha Detained, Says 'Rulers in Delhi Scared'". TheQuint. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
↑ "Ram Guha vs Salman Khurshid: Who you support? - Conversation - Legally India". www.legallyindia.com. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
↑ "Ram Guha retires hurt. Was it to protest Kumble treatment?". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
↑ "Yogendra Yadav, Ram Guha and others say citizens' resources should be treated as govt resources; infuriates Twitter". Free Press Journal. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
↑ "An Unlikely Democracy". www.law.columbia.edu. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
↑ Editorial (9 March 2011). "In praise of … Ramachandra Guha | Editorial". the Guardian. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
↑ link, Get; Facebook; Twitter; Pinterest; Email; Apps, Other. "Ram Guha must know: Sonia, Rahul leaving space 'won't help' secularism, democracy". Retrieved 5 September 2021. {{cite web}}: |last2= has generic name (help)
↑ Vardhan, Anand. "The anxieties of Ram Guha, the compulsive adviser". Newslaundry. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
↑ "Are bhakts misappropriating Netaji? Ram Guha thinks so". www.dailyo.in. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
↑ Desk, InsideSport (1 June 2017). "Citing personal reasons, Ram Guha quits BCCI panel". InsideSport. Retrieved 5 September 2021. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
↑ Patel, Aakar (5 November 2018). "And then they came for Ram Guha". news.abplive.com. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
↑ Jaishankar, Dhruva. "India's 5 most important public intellectuals – and what this list says about our national discourse". Scroll.in. Retrieved 13 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
↑ "Does Ramachandra Guha have a caste?".
↑ ^24.0 ^24.1 Bhandari, Bhupesh (8 May 2007). "Lunch with BS: Ramachandra Guha". Business Standard India. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
↑ Gadgil, Madhav (9 April 2018). "Ram Guha: A Radical Progressive". Outlook India. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
↑ Guha, Ramachandra (19 November 2012). "Who Milks This Cow?". Outlook India. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
↑ Guha, Ramachandra (27 October 2007). "A Unique Trail - Twist in the tale of the search for an elusive book". The Telegraph. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
↑ Guha, Ramachandra (30 January 2016). "Why the Dalai Lama may be India's noblest resident". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
↑ Chopra, Jaskiran (12 July 2016). "'Dosco' Amitav Ghosh celebrates his 60th Birthday". The Pioneer. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
↑ Chopra, Jaskiran (29 October 2017). "Of nature, cricket, literature and history". The Statesman. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
↑ 'History of the Weekly' published by The Doon School (2009), p. 36.
↑ "The shrinking of St. Stephen's". 11 August 2018.
↑ Guha, Ramachandra (25 June 2007). "St Stephen's: Murder In The Cathedral?". Outlook India. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
↑ "Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (also referred to as IIM Calcutta or IIMC) website". www.iimcal.ac.in.
↑ "Ramachandra Guha". Goodreads.com. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
↑ "Ramachandra Guha to join IISc as visiting professor". India Today. Press Trust of India. 2 July 2019. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
↑ "Ramachandra Guha: 'Each one of us has rejected close friends' for the NIF". Mintlounge. 7 July 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
↑ "Ramachandra Guha | Center for Contemporary South Asia". watson.brown.edu. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
↑ "Best non-fiction books of the decade". The Hindu. 28 December 2019.
↑ "Poets Dominate Sahitya Akademi Awards 2011" (PDF) (Press release). Sahitya Akademi. 21 December 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 May 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2011..
↑ Gandhi Before India. Penguin India. 2014. ISBN 978-0-1434-2341-6. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
↑ Peer, Basharat (21 October 2013). "A Conversation With: Historian Ramachandra Guha". The New York Times.
↑ Jaishankar, Dhruva. "India's 5 most important public intellectuals – and what this list says about our national discourse". Scroll.in. Retrieved 13 January 2022. 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
↑ Ramachandra Guha. "VIGNETTES OF VAJPAYEE, The Hindu". ::Welcome to Ramachandra Guha.in. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
↑ Guha, Ramachandra (2003). A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport. Picador. ISBN 978-0-330-49117-4.
↑ "Ramachandra Guha accepts SC’s nomination to BCCI’s panel of administrators", Hindustan Times, 30 January 2017.
↑ Guha, Ramachandra (2020). The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-93-90327-28-7.
↑ Vidya Iyengar (11 November 2019), "Could have been compared to my father if he wrote fiction: Author Keshava Guha", The News Indian Express. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
↑ Foreign Policy: Top 100 Intellectuals Archived 25 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
↑ "Padma Bhushan for Shekhar Gupta, Abhinav Bindra". 25 January 2009. Retrieved 26 January 2009.
↑ "POETS DOMINATE SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARDS 2011" (PDF) (Press release). Sahitya Akademi. 21 December 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 May 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
↑ "Yale Awards 12 Honorary Degrees at 2014 Graduation". YaleNews. New Haven, Connecticut. 19 May 2014.
↑ "Historian Ramachandra Guha Selected for Japan's Fukuoka Prize". NDTV. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
↑ "Honorary Foreign Member Recipient". historians.org. American Historical association. Retrieved 1 March 2021.

External links

[22] Major news outlets calling the subject Ram Guha— ^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21]

[Scroll.in-1] 1.0 ^1.1 "Ramachandra Guha: Celebrating the life of Keshav Desiraju – a true Nehruvian Indian". Scroll. Scroll.in. Retrieved 14 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[2] "Modi is a study in self love," Ram Guha at The Wire Dialogues, archived from the original on 21 December 2021, retrieved 5 September 2021

[3] Ramachandra Guha (23 November 2020). "When Rahul Dravid told Ram Guha to 'shut up' about cricket strategy, write history books". ThePrint. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

[4] Advani, Rukun. "'He was what was called in those days a sports type': Ram Guha through the eyes of Rukun Advani". Scroll.in. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

[5] "Ramachandra Guha: Is Ram Guha's hate for Modi behind his racist stereotyping of Gujaratis?". Times of India Blog. 12 June 2020. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

[6] "Opinion: In Response To Ram Guha's View Of Rahul Gandhi - by Salman Khurshid". NDTV.com. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

[7] Mamata Must Not Behave Like Modi: Ram Guha, archived from the original on 21 December 2021, retrieved 5 September 2021

[8] Pioneer, The. "Celebration of a genius". The Pioneer. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

[9] "'Kerala did a disastrous thing by electing Rahul Gandhi':Ram Guha at KLF". The News Minute. 18 January 2020. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

[10] Nanda, Prashant K. (16 October 2018). "Historian Ram Guha to join Ahmedabad University as professor". mint. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

[11] Quint, The (19 December 2019). "CAA: Historian Ram Guha Detained, Says 'Rulers in Delhi Scared'". TheQuint. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

[12] "Ram Guha vs Salman Khurshid: Who you support? - Conversation - Legally India". www.legallyindia.com. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

[13] "Ram Guha retires hurt. Was it to protest Kumble treatment?". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

[14] "Yogendra Yadav, Ram Guha and others say citizens' resources should be treated as govt resources; infuriates Twitter". Free Press Journal. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

[15] "An Unlikely Democracy". www.law.columbia.edu. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

[16] Editorial (9 March 2011). "In praise of … Ramachandra Guha | Editorial". the Guardian. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

[17] , Get; Facebook; Twitter; Pinterest; Email; Apps, Other. "Ram Guha must know: Sonia, Rahul leaving space 'won't help' secularism, democracy". Retrieved 5 September 2021. {{cite web}}: |last2= has generic name (help)

[18] Vardhan, Anand. "The anxieties of Ram Guha, the compulsive adviser". Newslaundry. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

[19] "Are bhakts misappropriating Netaji? Ram Guha thinks so". www.dailyo.in. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

[20] Desk, InsideSport (1 June 2017). "Citing personal reasons, Ram Guha quits BCCI panel". InsideSport. Retrieved 5 September 2021. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)

[21] Patel, Aakar (5 November 2018). "And then they came for Ram Guha". news.abplive.com. Retrieved 5 September 2021.

[23] Jaishankar, Dhruva. "India's 5 most important public intellectuals – and what this list says about our national discourse". Scroll.in. Retrieved 13 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[24] "Does Ramachandra Guha have a caste?".

[BS-25] 24.0 ^24.1 Bhandari, Bhupesh (8 May 2007). "Lunch with BS: Ramachandra Guha". Business Standard India. Retrieved 19 July 2018.

[madhav-gadgil-26] Gadgil, Madhav (9 April 2018). "Ram Guha: A Radical Progressive". Outlook India. Retrieved 19 July 2018.

[27] Guha, Ramachandra (19 November 2012). "Who Milks This Cow?". Outlook India. Retrieved 19 July 2018.

[28] Guha, Ramachandra (27 October 2007). "A Unique Trail - Twist in the tale of the search for an elusive book". The Telegraph. Retrieved 19 July 2018.

[29] Guha, Ramachandra (30 January 2016). "Why the Dalai Lama may be India's noblest resident". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 20 July 2018.

[30] Chopra, Jaskiran (12 July 2016). "'Dosco' Amitav Ghosh celebrates his 60th Birthday". The Pioneer. Retrieved 20 July 2018.

[31] Chopra, Jaskiran (29 October 2017). "Of nature, cricket, literature and history". The Statesman. Retrieved 20 July 2018.

[32] 'History of the Weekly' published by The Doon School (2009), p. 36.

[33] "The shrinking of St. Stephen's". 11 August 2018.

[34] Guha, Ramachandra (25 June 2007). "St Stephen's: Murder In The Cathedral?". Outlook India. Retrieved 20 July 2018.

[35] "Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (also referred to as IIM Calcutta or IIMC) website". www.iimcal.ac.in.

[36] "Ramachandra Guha". Goodreads.com. Retrieved 20 April 2019.

[37] "Ramachandra Guha to join IISc as visiting professor". India Today. Press Trust of India. 2 July 2019. Retrieved 20 November 2021.

[38] "Ramachandra Guha: 'Each one of us has rejected close friends' for the NIF". Mintlounge. 7 July 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2021.

[39] "Ramachandra Guha | Center for Contemporary South Asia". watson.brown.edu. Retrieved 20 November 2021.

[40] "Best non-fiction books of the decade". The Hindu. 28 December 2019.

[:0-41] "Poets Dominate Sahitya Akademi Awards 2011" (PDF) (Press release). Sahitya Akademi. 21 December 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 May 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2011..

[42] Gandhi Before India. Penguin India. 2014. ISBN 978-0-1434-2341-6. Retrieved 20 April 2019.

[43] Peer, Basharat (21 October 2013). "A Conversation With: Historian Ramachandra Guha". The New York Times.

[44] Jaishankar, Dhruva. "India's 5 most important public intellectuals – and what this list says about our national discourse". Scroll.in. Retrieved 13 January 2022. 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[45] Ramachandra Guha. "VIGNETTES OF VAJPAYEE, The Hindu". ::Welcome to Ramachandra Guha.in. Retrieved 20 November 2021.

[46] Guha, Ramachandra (2003). A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport. Picador. ISBN 978-0-330-49117-4.

[47] "Ramachandra Guha accepts SC’s nomination to BCCI’s panel of administrators", Hindustan Times, 30 January 2017.

[48] Guha, Ramachandra (2020). The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-93-90327-28-7.

[49] Vidya Iyengar (11 November 2019), "Could have been compared to my father if he wrote fiction: Author Keshava Guha", The News Indian Express. Retrieved 28 January 2019.

[50] Foreign Policy: Top 100 Intellectuals Archived 25 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine

[51] "Padma Bhushan for Shekhar Gupta, Abhinav Bindra". 25 January 2009. Retrieved 26 January 2009.

[52] "POETS DOMINATE SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARDS 2011" (PDF) (Press release). Sahitya Akademi. 21 December 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 May 2012. Retrieved 21 December 2011.

[53] "Yale Awards 12 Honorary Degrees at 2014 Graduation". YaleNews. New Haven, Connecticut. 19 May 2014.

[54] "Historian Ramachandra Guha Selected for Japan's Fukuoka Prize". NDTV. Retrieved 21 June 2015.

[55] "Honorary Foreign Member Recipient". historians.org. American Historical association. Retrieved 1 March 2021.

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-| birth_place        = [[Dehradun]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]]<br/>(now in [[Uttarakhand]], [[India]])
+| 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>
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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)<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>
+| alma_mater         = [[University of Delhi]] ([[B.A.|BA]], [[M.A.|MA]])<br/>[[Indian Institute of Management Calcutta|IIM Calcutta]] (Fellowship Program)
-| occupation         = Historian,  Distinguished University professor at [[Krea University]]
+| occupation         = Historian, author, public intellectual, distinguished University professor at [[Krea University]]
-| notable_works      = ''[[India after Gandhi]]''
+| 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
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-'''Ramachandra Guha''' (born 29 April 1958) is an [[India]]n historian, writer and public intellectual<ref>{{Cite news|last=Menon|first=Suresh|date=2020-11-24|title=A fan’s travelogue & 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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> whose research interests include [[social history|social]], [[political history|political]], [[contemporary history|contemporary]], [[Environmental history|environmental]] and [[cricket history]], and the field of [[economics]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170126100907/http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/indias-survival-miracle-we-proved-western-analysts-wrong-ramachandra-guha-56308]</ref> He is also a columnist for ''[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|The Telegraph]]'', ''[[Hindustan Times]]'' and Hindi daily newspaper ''[[Amar Ujala]]''.<ref>{{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's no need to be nostalgic for an undivided India|work=Hindustan Times|author=Ramachandra Guha|date=9 February 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name="indiatogether">{{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}}</ref>
+'''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. Was it to protest Kumble treatment?|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/cricket/2017/jun/02/ram-guha-retires-hurt-was-it-to-protest-kumble-treatment-1611882.html|access-date=2021-09-05|website=The New Indian Express}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Yogendra Yadav, Ram Guha and others say citizens' resources should be treated as govt resources; infuriates Twitter|url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/viral/yogendra-yadav-ram-guha-and-others-say-citizens-resources-should-be-treated-as-govt-resources-infuriates-twitter|access-date=2021-09-05|website=Free Press Journal|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=An Unlikely Democracy|url=https://www.law.columbia.edu/news/archive/unlikely-democracy|access-date=2021-09-05|website=www.law.columbia.edu|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Editorial|date=2011-03-09|title=In praise of … Ramachandra Guha {{!}} Editorial|url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/mar/09/in-praise-of-ramachandra-guha|access-date=2021-09-05|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=link|first1=Get|last2=Facebook|last3=Twitter|last4=Pinterest|last5=Email|last6=Apps|first6=Other|title=Ram Guha must know: Sonia, Rahul leaving space 'won't help' secularism, democracy|url=https://www.counterview.net/2020/12/ram-guha-must-know-sonia-rahul-leaving.html|access-date=2021-09-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Vardhan|first=Anand|title=The anxieties of Ram Guha, the compulsive adviser|url=https://www.newslaundry.com/2017/11/12/the-anxieties-of-ram-guha-the-compulsive-adviser|access-date=2021-09-05|website=Newslaundry}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Are bhakts misappropriating Netaji? 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]].<!-- "Authority" is the right word here in this context. See [[historian]], it says "A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it." -->
-A regular contributor to various academic journals, Guha has also written for ''[[The Caravan]]'' and ''[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]]'' 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> His latest book is ''Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World'' (2018), the second part of his two-volume biography of [[M. K. Gandhi]]. It is a follow-up to the acclaimed ''[[Gandhi Before India]]'' (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.<ref>{{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]]}}</ref>
+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.
-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>
+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>
-==Early life and education==
+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>
-Guha was born on 29 April 1958 at [[Dehradun]], [[Uttar Pradesh]] (now in [[Uttarakhand]]), in a Tamil Brahmin family.<ref>https://www.newslaundry.com/2017/06/14/response-ramchandra-guha-gandhi-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.{{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.<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}}</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''.
+==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>
-==Books==
+=== History of Modern India ===
-[[File:Ram Guha Doon School library.jpg|thumb|Guha delivering a talk at [[The Doon School]]'s Kilachand Library in 2017.]]
+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]]
-Guha has authored the chapter ''The VHP Needs To Hear The Condemnation Of The Hindu Middle Ground'' in the book ''[[Gujarat The making of a tragedy|Gujarat: The making of a tragedy]]'', which was edited by [[Siddharth Varadarajan]] and published by Penguin. The book is about the [[2002 Gujarat riots]].
-Guha is the author of ''[[India after Gandhi]]'', published by [[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan]] and [[Ecco Press|Ecco]] in 2007. This book has been translated into Hindi in two volumes as ''Bharat: Gandhi Ke Baad'' and ''Bharat: Nehru Ke Baad'' and published by Penguin. The [[Tamil language|Tamil]] version of the book is published in the name "இந்திய வரலாறு காந்திக்குப் பிறகு ( பாகம் 1 & 2)" ("Indhiya varalaaru Gandhikku pin - Part 1 & 2") by Kizhakku and translated by R. P. Sarathy. The [[Bengali language|Bengali]] version of the book is published in the name "গাঁধী-উত্তর ভারতবর্ষ" by Ananda Publishers Private Limited and translated by Ashish Lahiri.
+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.
-Guha also published a collection of essays titled ''Patriots and Partisans''<ref>{{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}}</ref> in November 2012.
+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>
-In October 2013, he published ''[[Gandhi Before India]]'', 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.<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> Another collection of essays under the title ''Democrats and Dissenters'' was released in September 2016. Guha has authored books on a diverse range of subjects including Cricket, Environment, Politics, History, etc.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/67629.Ramachandra_Guha|title=Ramachandra Guha|website=[[Goodreads.com]]|access-date=20 April 2019}}</ref>
-In 2018, Guha published ''Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948'', 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.
+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>
-His books are among the most sought after for history students and civil service aspirants in India.
+=== 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 ==
+=== 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|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}}</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.
+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]]
-In July 2017 Guha stepped down from his position as a [[Board of Control for Cricket in India|BCCI]] administrator, citing personal reasons.
+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|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}}</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==
+== Personal life ==
-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>
+[[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==
-[[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]]
 *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.<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> In the poll that followed, Guha was placed 44th.
+*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|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/padma-bhushan-for-shekhar-gupta-abhinav-bindra/415108|access-date=26 January 2009}}</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><ref>{{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}}</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>
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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 }}
+* {{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 = 9780140247206 }}
+* {{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 = 9780195634273 }}
+* {{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 = 9780330396134 }}
+* {{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 = 978-0330491174}}
+* {{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 = 9788178241081}}
+* {{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 = 9780520222359 }}
+* {{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 = 9780520082960 }}
+* {{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 = 9780415125246 }}
+* {{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 = 9781853833298 }}
+* {{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 = 9780195644548 }}
+* {{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 = 9780195640755 }}
+* {{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 = 9780195647815 }}
+* {{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 = 9780195659115 }}
+* {{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 = 9789350092590 }}
+* {{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 = 9780321011695 }}
+* {{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 = 9780143419242 }}
+* {{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 = 9780330505543 }}
+* {{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 = 9780670083862 }}
+* {{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 = 978-0670083879 }}
+* {{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 = 9788178240015 }}
+* {{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 = 9788178240732}}
+* {{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 = 9780198075523}}
+* {{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=978-0385532310}}
+* {{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=978-9390327287}}
+* {{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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+* [[List of Indian writers]]
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v t e Padma Bhushan award recipients (2000–2009)
2000	V. K. Aatre Anil Agarwal Ram Narain Agarwal Sharan Rani Backliwal Swami Kalyandev Veerendra Heggade Pavaguda V. Indiresan Wahiduddin Khan B. B. Lal Raghunath Anant Mashelkar H. Y. Sharada Prasad Rajinikanth Begum Aizaz Rasul Radha Reddy Raja Reddy Pakkiriswamy Chandra Sekharan Karamshi Jethabhai Somaiya S. Srinivasan Ratan Tata Harbans Singh Wasir
2001	Dev Anand Viswanathan Anand Amitabh Bachchan Rahul Bajaj B. R. Barwale Balasaheb Bharde Boyi Bhimanna Swadesh Chatterjee B. R. Chopra Ashok Desai K. M. George Bhupen Hazarika Lalgudi Jayaraman Yamini Krishnamurthy Shiv K. Kumar Raghunath Mohapatra Arun Netravali Mohan Singh Oberoi Rajendra K. Pachauri Abdul Karim Parekh Amrita Patel Pran Aroon Purie B. V. Raju Bhanumathi Ramakrishna Sundaram Ramakrishnan Chitranjan Singh Ranawat Palle Rama Rao Raj Reddy Kum Uma Sharma L. Subramaniam Naresh Trehan
2002	Gary Ackerman H. P. S. Ahluwalia Prabha Atre Sushantha Kumar Bhattacharyya Chandu Borde Eugene Chelyshev Pravinchandra Varjivan Gandhi Shobha Gurtu Henning Holck-Larsen Zakir Hussain B. K. S. Iyengar Faquir Chand Kohli V. C. Kulandaiswamy Gury Marchuk Jagat Singh Mehta Ismail Merchant Mario Miranda Frank Pallone Ramanujam Varatharaja Perumal Natesan Rangabashyam Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra Habib Tanvir Kottayan Katankot Venugopal Nirmal Verma K. J. Yesudas
2003	Teejan Bai Ammannur Madhava Chakyar Prabhu Chawla Herbert Fischer Jamshyd Godrej Coluthur Gopalan K. Parasaran B. Rajam Iyer Shri Krishna Joshi Madurai Narayanan Krishnan Rajinder Kumar Ramesh Kumar Purshotam Lal Sitakant Mahapatra Bagicha Singh Minhas Subhash Mukhopadhyay P. S. Narayanaswamy Arcot Ramachandran Trichur V. Ramachandran Kantilal Hastimal Sancheti T. V. Sankaranarayanan Naseeruddin Shah T. V. R. Shenoy Jagjit Singh Ram Badan Singh Hari Shankar Singhania Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman Narayanan Srinivasan Padma Subrahmanyam Swapna Sundari O. V. Vijayan Herbert Alexandrovich Yefremov
2004	Thoppil Varghese Antony Soumitra Chatterjee Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari Gulzar Sardara Singh Johl M. V. Kamath Komal Kothari Yoshirō Mori Gopi Chand Narang Govindarajan Padmanaban Poornima Arvind Pakvasa Vishnu Prabhakar N. Rajam C. H. Hanumantha Rao Thiruvengadam Lakshman Sankar T. N. Seshagopalan Bijoy Nandan Shahi Krishna Srinivas Alarmel Valli
2005	Sardar Anjum Andre Beteille Chandi Prasad Bhatt Tumkur Ramaiya Satishchandran Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri Yash Chopra Manna Dey Irfan Habib Yusuf Hamied Qurratulain Hyder Tarlochan Singh Kler Anil Kohli Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Mrinal Miri Hari Mohan Brijmohan Lall Munjal M. T. Vasudevan Nair Azim Premji Balraj Puri Syed Mir Qasim A. Ramachandran G. V. Iyer Ramakrishna V. S. Ramamurthy K.I.Varaprasad Reddy K. Srinath Reddy Girish Chandra Saxena Narasimhiah Seshagiri Mark Tully
2006	Jaiveer Agarwal P. S. Appu Shashi Bhushan Ganga Prasad Birla Grigory Bongard-Levin Lokesh Chandra Chiranjeevi Dinesh Nandini Dalmia Tarun Das Madhav Gadgil A. K. Hangal Devaki Jain Kamleshwar Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan Sabri Khan Ghulam Mustafa Khan Shanno Khurana Gunter Kruger P. Leela K. P. P. Nambiar Nandan Nilekani Sai Paranjpye Deepak Parekh M. V. Pylee Subramaniam Ramadorai N. S. Ramaswamy Pavani Parameswara Rao Ramakanta Rath V. Shanta Hira Lall Sibal Billy Arjan Singh Jasjit Singh Vijaypat Singhania K. G. Subramanyan K. K. Talwar Vijay Shankar Vyas Dušan Zbavitel
2007	Javed Akhtar Gabriel Chiramel Ela Gandhi Saroj Ghose V. Mohini Giri Somnath Hore Jamshed Jiji Irani Gurcharan Singh Kalkat N. Mahalingam Prithipal Singh Maini Tyeb Mehta Rajan and Sajan Mishra Rajan and Sajan Mishra Sunil Mittal Ramankutty Nair Gopaldas Neeraj Indra Nooyi Kavalam Narayana Panicker Bhikhu Parekh Syed Mohammad Sharfuddin Quadri V. S. Ramachandran Tapan Raychaudhuri S. H. Raza Jeffrey Sachs Chandra Prasad Saikia L. Z. Sailo Shiv Kumar Sarin Shriram Sharma Manju Sharma T. N. Srinivasan Osamu Suzuki K. T. Thomas
2008	Mian Bashir Ahmed Kaushik Basu Shayama Chona Jagjit Singh Chopra Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar Chandrashekhar Dasgupta Asis Datta Meghnad Desai Padma Desai Sukh Dev Nirmal Kumar Ganguly B. N. Goswamy Vasant Gowarikar Baba Kalyani K. V. Kamath Inderjit Kaur Barthakur Ravindra Kelekar Asad Ali Khan Dominique Lapierre D. R. Mehta Shiv Nadar Suresh Kumar Neotia T. K. Oommen K. Padmanabhaiah Vikram Pandit V. Ramachandran Sushil Kumar Saxena Amarnath Sehgal Jasdev Singh Sri Lal Sukla P. Susheela S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan Yuli Vorontsov Sunita Williams Ji Xianlin
2009	Isher Judge Ahluwalia Inderjit Kaur Barthakur Shamshad Begum Abhinav Bindra Shanta Dhananjayan V. P. Dhananjayan Ramachandra Guha Shekhar Gupta Khalid Hameed Minoru Hara Jayakanthan Thomas Kailath Sarvagya Singh Katiyar G. Krishna R. C. Mehta A. Sreedhara Menon S. K. Misra A. M. Naik Satish Nambiar Kunwar Narayan Nagnath Naikwadi Kirit Parikh Sam Pitroda C. K. Prahalad Gurdip Singh Randhawa Brijendra Kumar Rao Bhakta B. Rath C. S. Seshadri V. Ganapati Sthapati Devendra Triguna Sarojini Varadappan
# Posthumous conferral 1954–1959 1960–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2019 2020–2029

v t e Sahitya Akademi Award for English
1960–1970	The Guide by R. K. Narayan (1960) The Serpent and the Rope by Raja Rao (1964) The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin by Verrier Elwin (1965) Shadow From Ladakh by Bhabani Bhattacharya (1967) An Artist in Life by Niharranjan Ray (1969)
1971–1980	Morning Face by Mulk Raj Anand (1971) Scholar Extraordinary by Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1975) Jawaharlal Nehru by Sarvepalli Gopal (1976) Azadi by Chaman Nahal (1977) Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai (1978) Inside the Haveli by Rama Mehta (1979) On the Mother by K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (1980)
1981–1990	Relationship by Jayanta Mahapatra (1981) The Last Labyrinth by Arun Joshi (1982) Latter-Day Psalms by Nissim Ezekiel (1983) The Keeper of the Dead by Keki N. Daruwalla (1984) Collected Poems by Kamala Das (1985) Rich Like Us by Nayantara Sahgal (1986) Trapfalls In the Sky by Shiv K. Kumar (1987) The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth (1988) The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh (1989) That Long Silence by Shashi Deshpande (1990)
1991–2000	The Trotter-Nama by Allan Sealy (1991) Our Trees Still Grow In Dehra by Ruskin Bond (1992) After Amnesia by G. N. Devy (1993) Serendip by Dom Moraes (1994) Memories of Rain by Sunetra Gupta (1996) Final Solutions and Other Plays by Mahesh Dattani (1998) The Collected Poems by A. K. Ramanujan (1999) Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar (2000)
2001–2010	Rajaji: A Life by Rajmohan Gandhi (2001) A New World by Amit Chaudhuri (2002) The Perishable Empire by Meenakshi Mukherjee (2003) The Mammaries of the Welfare State by Upamanyu Chatterjee (2004) The Algebra of Infinite Justice by Arundhati Roy (2005) The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa (2006) Disorderly Women by Malathi Rao (2007) Mahabharata: An Inquiry into the Human Condition by Chaturvedi Badrinath (2009) The Book of Rachel by Esther David (2010)
2011–present	India after Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha (2011) These Errors are Correct by Jeet Thayil (2012) Laburnum For My Head by Temsula Ao (2013) Trying to Say Goodbye by Adil Jussawalla (2014) Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer by Cyrus Mistry (2015) Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto (2016) The Black Hill by Mamang Dai (2017) The Blind Lady's Descendants by Anees Salim (2018)

Ramachandra Guha
Guha in 2016
Born	(1958-04-29) 29 April 1958 (age 68) Dehradun, India^[1]
Alma mater	University of Delhi (BA, MA) IIM Calcutta (Fellowship Program)
Occupation	Historian, author, public intellectual, distinguished University professor at Krea University
Notable work	India After Gandhi Gandhi Before India Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World
Spouse(s)	Sujata Keshavan
Website	ramachandraguha.in
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