Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha ( born April 29, 1958 in Dehradun ) is an Indian journalist and historian.

Life

Guha attended The Doon School and graduated from St. Stephen 's College ( Delhi ) in 1977 with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and the Delhi School of Economics Delhi University an MA. His fellowship at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, he was awarded the degree in from social history.

Guha has worked in a number of Indian, American and other international research centers as a Fellow, a visiting researcher and guest lecturer and in 1994 was also a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin. In the academic year 2011-2012 he was a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Guha writes articles for various newspapers, as for the The Telegraph (Calcutta ) and the Hindustan Times, whose translations also appear in the newspapers Dainik Bhaskar, Prajavani and Andhra Jyothy, and for the magazines Outlook and The Caravan. For the daily The Hindu, he wrote a fortnightly column from 1997 to 2009.

Guha published 2007 study India after Gandhi, which was also translated into Hindi. 2013 followed among his contemporary historical studies, the book Gandhi Before Gandhi's time in South Africa over India.

With Arundhati Roy, which advocates the construction of the Sardar Sarovar dam, it is in dispute, he on the other hand support the affected population and the civil rights activist Medha Patkar.

Guha 2009, Padma Bhushan and Sahitya Akademi Award in 2011 to receive. He lives in Bangalore and has worked with Sujata Keshavan two children.

Writings (selection )

  • Before Gandhi India: How the Mahatma Was Made. Alfred A. Knopf, New York city in 2014, ISBN 978-0-385532297.
  • Makers of modern India. 2011
  • India after Gandhi: the history of the world 's large largest democracy. 2007
  • How much shoulderstand a person consume? : Environmentalism in India and the United States. 2006
  • A Corner of a Foreign Field - An Indian sport history of a British. Picador, 2001 [ Cricket ]
  • The unquiet woods: ecological change and peasant resistance in the Himalaya. 2000
  • Savaging the civilized: Verrier Elwin, his tribals, and India. 1999
  • Varieties of environmentalism: essays north and south. 1997
  • Social ecology. 1994
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