Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra Guha | |
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Guha at the Bangalore Literature Festival, 2024 | |
| Born | 29 April 1958 |
| Alma mater | University of Delhi (BA, MA) IIM Calcutta (PhD) |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, author, public intellectual, distinguished University professor at Krea University |
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| Spouse | Sujata Keshavan |
| Website | ramachandraguha.in |
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Ramachandra "Ram" Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian, environmentalist, writer and public intellectual whose research interests include social, political, contemporary, environmental and cricket history. He is an important authority on the history of modern India. 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.
Covering a wide range of subjects, Guha has produced three major books of modern India's socio-political history. Among them, Gandhi Before India (2013) and Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World (2018), are the two volumes of biography of Mahatma Gandhi, an icon of the Indian independence movement. The other being India After Gandhi (2007), an account of the history of India from 1947 to 2007, which received commercial and critical success.
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 by aspirants of the Indian civil services examination. Guha was listed among the 100 most powerful Indians in 2022 by The Indian Express.