Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra Guha is a historian and biographer who is currently a Professor at Krea University. He has previously taught at Stanford University, the Indian Institute of Science, and the London School of Economics. His books and essays, which have been translated into more than twenty languages, span a wide variety of topics: they include a pioneering environmental history, The Unquiet Woods (1989), an award-winning social history of cricket, A Corner of a Foreign Field (2002), and a widely acclaimed history of his country, India after Gandhi (2007). He is also the author of a two-volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi: Gandhi Before India (2013) and Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World (2018). His most recent book is Rebels against the Raj (2022). Guha is strongly committed to preserving liberal democratic values in India and an outspoken critic of his country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, and his policies of Hindu nationalism.
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