Ramachandra Guha
Indian historian of modern India, the environment and cricket; India After Gandhi.
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- Ramachandra Guha is an Indian historian, environmentalist and writer whose subjects include modern India, the environment and cricket.
- His India After Gandhi (2007) is a history of India from 1947.
- He has written a two-volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi.
Key facts
- Born
- 29 April 1958, Dehradun1
- Education
- BA in economics, St. Stephen's College, Delhi (1977); MA, Delhi School of Economics; PhD, IIM Calcutta, on the Chipko movement1
- Books
- The Unquiet Woods; India After Gandhi (2007); Gandhi Before India (2013); Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World (2018)1
- Honours
- Honorary Foreign Member, American Historical Association (2019)1
- Also
- Trustee of the New India Foundation, which he conceived in 2004; on BCCI's panel of administrators for five months in 20171
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