'Magisterial' - The Financial TimesAn updated edition of Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi with new material that explains the major events, policy shifts and controversies of the past decade, placing them in their proper sociological and historical context and setting out the author's justifiable concerns for the decline of democracy in India.Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of...

**'A vivid, absorbing read' Sunday Times'Magisterial' Literary ReviewThe magnificent new biography of Gandhi by India's leading historianA New York Times Notable Book of 2018**Gandhi lived one of the great 20th-century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and galvanized many millions of men and women around the world. He lived almost entirely in the shadow of the British Raj, which for much of his life seemed a permanent fact, ...

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 reticent editor Rukun Advani is the subject of this quite eccentric and thoroughly compelling literary memoir.It started in Delhi in the early 1980s, whe...

The first volume of the definitive biography of Gandhi, one of the most remarkable figures of the 20th century, from the great historian Ramachandra GuhaThe life of Mohandas Gandhi is one of the most remarkable and potent in the modern era. In this fascinating new biography Ramachandra Guha allows us to understand the personality and politics of Mohandas Gandhi as never before. Showing that Gandhi's ideas were fundamentally shaped before his return to India in 1915...

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, SPECTATORRebels Against the Raj tells the little-known story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than their own: foreigners to India who across the late 1...

A tribute to the finest writers on the game of cricket and an acknowledgement that the great days of cricket literature are behind us. There was a time when major English writers – P. G. Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alec Waugh – took time off to write about cricket, whereas the cricket book market today is dominated by ghosted autobiographies and statistical compendiums. The Picador Book of Cricket celebrates the best writing on the game and includes many pieces that have been o...

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 the life of cricket in India.He traces the game across every level at which it is played: school, college, club, state and country. He offers vivid portraits of local heroes, provi...

I call myself a Nehruvian Indian [and] I like to think that the term "Nehruvian Indian" captures more than my own c.v.', says Ramachandra Guha in his Introduction to this sparkling collection of essays. His book is a meditation on how a large area of contemporary India's cultural and intellectual life has in fact been fashioned by exceptional individuals who have, in diverse ways, imbibed the spirit of liberalism, secularism, personal integrity and social commitment—values which Guha assoc...

“Inside every thinking Indian there is a Gandhian and a Marxist struggling for supremacy”, says Ramachandra Guha in the opening sentence of this wonderfully readable book of ideas, opinions and reflections. A substantial portion of the book expands on this salvo: it analyses Gandhians and pseudo-Gandhians, Marxists and anti-Marxists, Nehruvians and anti-Secularists, Democrats and Stalinists, scientists and historians, environmentalists and cricketers in short, it examines and discusses all th...

1893-ല് ദക്ഷിണാഫ്രിക്കയിലേക്ക് കപ്പലേറുമ്പോള് സ്വന്തം രാജ്യത്ത് പരാജിതനായ ഒരു വക്കീലായിരുന്നു മോഹന്ദാസ് കരംചന്ദ് ഗാന്ധി. തുടര്ന്നുള്ള രണ്ടു പതിറ്റാണ്ടുകള് അദ്ദേഹത്തെ മഹാത്മാഗാന്ധിയാക്കി മാറ്റി. ബ്രിട്ടിഷ് സാമ്രാജ്യത്തെ മുട്ടുകുത്തിക്കാനുള്ള തന്റെ പ്രത്യയശാസ്ത്രത്തിനെയും അടവുകളെയും അദ്ദേഹം മൂശയില് വാര്ത്തെടുത്തത് അവിടെവച്ചാണ്. ഭിന്നാഭിപ്രായങ്ങളുള്ള പല വിഭാഗങ്ങളില് ഉള്ച്ചേര്ന്നുള്ള സത്യാന്വേഷണങ്ങള്, ആണ്-പെണ് സൗഹൃദങ്ങള്, ഭര്ത്താവെന്ന നിലയ്ക്കും അച്ഛനെന്ന നിലയ്ക്കുമുള്ള പരാജയം, ബ്രിട്ടിഷ് സാമ്...

സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യാനന്തര ഭാരതത്തിന്റെ കുതിപ്പും കിതപ്പും വസ്തുനിഷ്ഠമായി രേഖപ്പെടുത്തുകയാണ് പ്രശസ്ത ചരിത്രകാരനായ രാമചന്ദ്ര ഗുഹ തന്റെ ഈ കൃതിയിലൂടെ. വിഭജനാനന്തരകലാപങ്ങളും അയല് രാജ്യങ്ങളുമായുണ്ടായ യുദ്ധങ്ങളും ഗോത്രകലാപങ്ങളും രാഷ്ട്രീയ വടംവലികളും എന്നിങ്ങനെ ഭാരതം പിന്നിട്ട ഓരോരോ ഘട്ടങ്ങളും തന്റെ അനുപമമായ ശൈലിയില് അദ്ദേഹം വിവരിക്കുമ്പോള് വായന ക്കാരനു ലഭിക്കുന്നത് ചരിത്രവായനയുടെ അതുല്യമായൊരു അനുഭ വമാണ്. രാമചന്ദ്ര ഗുഹയുടെ ദീര്ഘകാലത്തെ ഗവേഷണങ്ങള്ക്കും അന്വേഷണങ്ങള്ക്കുമൊടുവില് പിറവിയെടുത്ത കൃതി. ഭാരതത്തിന...

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 global movement set far outside Europe or America. Long before the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and well before climate change, ten remarkable individuals wrote with deep insigh...