Ramachandra Guha
Author of India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
About the Author
Ramachandra Guha is one of the leading historians of modern India. His books include Environmentalism: A Global History and India after Gandhi.
Image credit: Ramachandra Guha at the US Consulate, Chennai
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Works by Ramachandra Guha
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Social Movements and the State (Readings in Indian Government and Politics series) (2001) — Contributor — 2 copies
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- Canonical name
- Guha, Ramachandra
- Birthdate
- 1958
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- India
- Places of residence
- Dehradun, India (birth)
Delhi, India
Calcutta, India
Bangalore, India - Education
- St. Stephen's College, Delhi (BA, Economics)
Delhi School of Economics (MA, Economics)
Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (PhD, Sociology)
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- Works
- 43
- Also by
- 2
- Members
- 2,080
- Popularity
- #12,351
- Rating
- 4.1
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- ISBNs
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- Languages
- 3
- Favorited
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Guha comes across as a charming and erudite (if somewhat snobbish) scholar, one whose numerous tangents are read fondly, a rare quality for a author to have, and an even rarer quality for a historian to possess.
The main pitfall of this compendium will be the fact, that since it is a collection of essays, and not a standalone treatise on a single topic - many topics are repeated, and this happens fairly frequently. This collection would have been better served by a more meticulous editor, but oh well.
TL;DR - good read if you're interested in history/politics, must read if you're cynical about Indian politics (you'll become even more cynical, but that's a different matter altogether).… (more)