Ramachandra Guha

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Ramachandra Guha was born in Dehradun in 1958, and educated in Delhi and Calcutta. He has taught at the University of Oslo, Stanford, and Yale, and at the Indian Institute of Science. He has been a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and also served as the Indo-American Community Chair Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

After a peripatetic academic career, with five jobs in ten years on three continents, Guha settled down to become a full-time writer based in Bangalore. His books cover a wide range of themes, including a global history of environmentalism, a biography of an anthropologist-activist, a social history of Indian cricket, and a social history of Himalayan peasants.

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SMASH-AND-GRAB CRONY LEAGUE, The Hindu

I live in Bangalore, down the road from the Karnataka State Cricket Association. I am a member of the KSCA, which means that I can watch all the matches played in its stadium for free, and from a comfortable seat next to the pavilion. I exercise the privilege always during a Test match, often during a one-day international, and sometimes during a Ranji Trophy match. However, I have not yet watc...

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Books by Ramachandra Guha

Average rating: 4.19 · 1,115 ratings · 156 reviews · 37 distinct works

	India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy 4.32 avg rating — 840 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport 4.22 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Makers of Modern India 3.74 avg rating — 57 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Picador Book Of Cricket 4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Environmentalism: A Global History 3.33 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	How Much Should a Person Consume?: Environmentalism in India and the United States 3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	An Anthropologist Among The Marxists And Other Essays 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings	My rating:
	States Of Indian Cricket, The: Anecdotal Histories 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Spin and Other Turns 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Savaging the Civilized: Verrier Elwin, His Tribals, and India 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:

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