Ramachandra Guha is a Renowned Historian and Biographer
Renowned historian and biographer Ramachandra Guha has written in a variety of academic disciplines. He is a renowned author of many important publications and is acknowledged as an authority on contemporary Indian history. Several prestigious magazines, including The Economist and The Washington Post, selected his masterful history of independent India, India After Gandhi, as Book of the Year.
‘Gandhi Before India’ and ‘Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World’, Ramachandra Guha‘s two-volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi, have both received high praise. He is also the author of the award-winning social history of cricket, A Corner of a Foreign Field, which The Guardian has praised as one of the top ten books on cricket ever published.
Beyond the political and Ramachandra Guha has made groundbreaking contributions to environmental history and cultural history. The environmental history of South Asia became a new subject of study as a result of his seminal essay, The Unquiet Woods. In books like Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism and Environmentalism: A Global History, he has also examined both Indian and global traditions of ecological philosophy.
Guha has received many distinguished honors throughout his career, such as the Fukuoka Prize for Contributions to Asian Studies, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Ramnath Goenka Prize for Excellence in Journalism, and the Howard Millman Award of the British Society for Sports History.
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