Ramachandra Guha is a historian and biographer who is currently Distinguished University Professor at Krea University. He has previously taught at Stanford University, the Indian Institute of Science, and the London School of Economics. His books include a pioneering environmental history, The Unquiet Woods (University of California Press, 1989), an award-winning social history of cricket, A Corner of a Foreign Field (Picador, 2002), and a widely acclaimed history of his country, India after Gandhi (Macmillan/Ecco Press, 2007) He is also the author of a two-volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi (Gandhi Before India, 2014, and Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World, 2018, both published by Knopf), each of which was chosen as a book of the year by the New York Times. His most recent book is Speaking with Nature (Yale University Press, 2024). His books and essays have been translated into more than twenty languages.
Guha’s awards include the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society of Environmental History, the Howard Milton Prize of the British Society for Sports History, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, the Sahitya Akademi Award, and the Fukuoka Prize for contributions to Asian studies. He is the recipient of an honorary doctorate in the humanities from Yale University.
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Categories & Topics
- Ten Ways in which Mahatma Gandhi still Matters
- What would Dr Ambedkar have made of the Republic of India Today?
- The Art and Craft of Historical Biography
- Crafting Lives: My Experiments with Gandhi and Others
- From Chipko to Climate Change: The History of Indian Environmentalism
- The Political Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore
- History and Chauvinism
- The Social History of Indian Cricket
- Five Challenges to Indian Democracy and Nationhood