28 Facts About Ramchandra Guha

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Ramachandra "Ram" Guha was born on 29 April 1958 and 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.

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Ramchandra Guha is an important authority on the history of modern India.

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Ramchandra Guha was a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru.

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Ramchandra Guha 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 2009 and 1952, respectively.

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Ramchandra Guha is a trustee of New India Foundation fellowship programme.

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Ramchandra Guha 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.

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Ramchandra Guha was listed among the 100 most powerful Indians in 2022 by The Indian Express.

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Ramchandra Guha was born on 29 April 1958 in Dehradun to a Tamil Brahmin family.

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Ramchandra Guha was raised in Dehradun, where his father Subramaniam Ramdas Guha worked at the Forest Research Institute, and his mother was a high-school teacher.

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Ramchandra Guha grew up in Dehradun, on the Forest Research Institute campus.

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Ramchandra Guha graduated from St Stephen's College, Delhi with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1977, and completed his master's in economics from the Delhi School of Economics.

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Ramchandra Guha then enrolled at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, where he earned a PhD on the social history of forestry in Uttarakhand, focusing on the Chipko movement.

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Ramchandra Guha has authored books on a diverse range of subjects including cricket, the environment, politics, and history.

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Ramchandra Guha was a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Science for a year beginning in July 2019.

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Ramchandra Guha is the trustee of the New India Foundation fellowship programme, which he himself conceptualised in 2004.

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Ramchandra Guha has taught at the following universities: Krea, Stanford, Yale, Berlin Institute for Advanced Study, Indian Institute of Science, and University of California at Berkeley.

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Ramchandra Guha held the Arne Naess Chair at the University of Oslo, the Indo-American Community Chair at the University of California at Berkeley, and the Philipe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at the London School of Economics.

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Ramchandra Guha is the author of India after Gandhi, published by Macmillan and Ecco in 2007.

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In 2010, Ramchandra Guha wrote the introduction for and edited Makers of Modern India, which profiles 19 Indians who helped in forming and shaping India.

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In 2022, Ramchandra Guha authored Rebels Against the Raj, which tells the story of 7 Westerners who came to, lived in, and served India in its quest for independence from the British Raj.

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Ramchandra Guha's books are amongst the most sought-after by history students and civil service aspirants in India.

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Ramchandra Guha has published acollection of essays, two of them being Patriots and Partisans and Democrats and Dissenters.

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Ramchandra Guha earned a PhD on the social history of forestry in Uttarakhand, focusing on the Chipko movement.

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Ramchandra Guha produced a biography of the anthropologist Verrier Elwin in 1999.

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Ramchandra Guha has written extensively on cricket as a journalist and as a historian.

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Ramchandra Guha was appointed to BCCI's panel of administrators by the Supreme Court of India on 30 January 2017, as part of the Lodha Committee reforms, only to resign in July of the same year.

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Ramchandra Guha is domiciled in the city of Bengaluru and frequently mentions about the same in his columns.

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Ramchandra Guha is married to Sujata Keshavan, a graphic designer, and they have two children together.

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