Guha studied at Cambrian Hall and The Doon School. He grew up in Dehradun, on the Forest Research Institute campus. While he should have been named Subramaniam Ramachandra in keeping with Tamil name-keeping norms, his teachers at school, presumably while registering his name during admission, were not familiar with these norms, and he came to be known as Ramachandra Guha. He was raised in Dehradun, where his father Subramaniam Ramdas Guha worked at the Forest Research Institute, and his mother was a high-school teacher. Guha was born on 29 April 1958 in Dehradun to a Tamil Brahmin family. Guha was listed among the 100 most powerful Indians in 2022 by The Indian Express. He is a columnist for The Telegraph, Hindustan Times, and Hindi daily newspaper, Amar Ujala. His book India After Gandhi is read by aspirants of the Indian civil services examination. A regular contributor to various academic journals, Guha has also written for The Caravan and Outlook magazines. 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. He is a trustee of New India Foundation fellowship programme. The other being India After Gandhi (2007), an account of the history of India from 1947-2017, which received commercial and critical success. 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.

He is the third Indian historian to be recognised by the association, joining the ranks of Romila Thapar and Jadunath Sarkar, who received the honour in 20, respectively.Ĭovering a wide range of subjects, Guha has produced three major books of modern India's socio-political history. The American Historical Association (AHA) has conferred its Honorary Foreign Member prize for the year 2019 on Ramchandra Guha.

Guha was a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru. He is an important authority on the history of modern India.įor the years 2011–12, he held a visiting position at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), occupying the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs. 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, and the field of economics.

Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World.

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