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RAMACHANDRA GUHA

Ramachandra Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian and writer whose research interests include environmental, social, political, contemporary and cricket history. He is also a columnist for The Telegraph and Hindustan Times. A regular contributor to various academic journals, Guha has also written for The Caravan and Outlook magazines. For the year 2011–12, he held a visiting position at the London college of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs. His notable work, India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy (2007), which was chosen as the Book of the Year by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal and Outlook, among others. The book won the 2011 Sahitya Akademi Award for English. His latest book is Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World (2018), the second part of the planned 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 twentieth and early twenty first centuries.

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RAMACHANDRA GUHA's NOTABLE WORKS

India After Gandhi: 

The History of 

the World's Largest Democracy

A magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have held it together. An intricately researched and elegantly written epic history peopled with larger-than-life characters, it is the work of a major scholar at the peak of his abilities...

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