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By the canons of orthodox social science, countries like India are not supposed to have an environmental consciousness. They are, as it were, "too poor to be green." In this deeply researched book, Ramachandra Guha challenges this narrative by revealing a virtually unknown prehistory of the...

WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY ‘A narrative of startling originality … As discussions of Britain’s colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in ever more need of nuanced books like this one’ SAM DALRYMPLE, SPECTATOR Rebels Against the Raj...

ബൃഹത്തായ ഒരു രാഷ്ട്രീയചരിത്രം സ്വന്തമായുള്ള രാജ്യമാണ് ഇന്ത്യ. മാറിമാറിവരുന്ന നേതാക്കളുടെ...

'Ramachandra Guha's Gandhi is a questioner, seeker and debater-and still worth arguing with.' - The Print 'Explores the enduring relevance of Mahatma Gandhi's ideas in the modern world.' - The Hindu 'The book also traces how Gandhi's ideas travelled beyond India, influencing civil rights and...

A major new collection of essays by Ramachandra Guha, Democrats and Dissenters is a work of rigorous scholarship on topics of compelling contemporary interest, written with elegance and wit. The book covers a wide range of themes: from the varying national projects of India's neighbours to...

Finally, here is a history of democratic India that is every bit as sweeping as the country itself … [A] magisterial work’ Financial Times ‘Guha has given democratic India the rich, well-paced history it deserves’ Washington Post ‘An insightful, spirited and elegantly crafted account...

An extraordinary history of resistance and the fight for Indian independence—the little-known story of seven foreigners to India who joined the movement fighting for freedom from British colonial rule. Rebels Against the Raj tells the story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country...

'Warm, insightful, far-ranging, and eloquent' ADAM HOCHSCHILD 'An essential book' GARY J. BASS 'Deeply erudite' AMITAV GHOSH From the foremost biographer of Mahatma Gandhi comes a landmark work of moral and political history – a sweeping account of Gandhi's ideas, their contested legacy, and...

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious friendship which developed between the famously outspoken historian Ramachandra Guha and his...

When Ramachandra Guha began following the game in the early 1960s, India was utterly marginal to the world of cricket: the country still hadn't won a Test match overseas; by the time he joined the Board of Control for Cricket in India, fifty years later, India had become world cricket's sole...

From one of India’s finest writers, thinkers and commentators, a memoir of a love affair with cricket. As a fan, player, writer, scholar, controversialist and administrator, Ram Guha has spent a life with cricket. In this book, Guha offers both a brilliantly charming memoir and a charter of...

Gandhi for a new century: his major legacies and why they still matter, from his foremost biographer. Any shortlist of the most impactful political leaders of the twentieth century must include Gandhi, and once we eliminate the tyrants—Mao, Stalin, and Hitler—Gandhi stands virtually alone...

1893-ല്‍ ദക്ഷിണാഫ്രിക്കയിലേക്ക് കപ്പലേറുമ്പോള്‍ സ്വന്തം രാജ്യത്ത് പരാജിതനായ ഒരു വക്കീലായിരുന്നു മോഹന്‍ദാസ്...