page_title: Ramachandra Guha
section_title: Books
hierarchical_section_title: Ramachandra Guha / Books
caption_attribution_description: English: Author, historian Ram Guha delivering a talk at The Doon School library in 2017 as the Founder's Day chief guest.
context_page_description: Ramachandra Guha is an Indian writer whose research interests include environmental, social, economics, political, contemporary and cricket history. He is also a columnist for The Telegraph, Hindustan Times and Hindi Daily Newspaper Amar Ujala.
  A regular contributor to various academic journals, Guha has also written for The Caravan and Outlook magazines. For the year 2011–12, he held a visiting position at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs. His latest book is Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, the second part of his two-volume biography of M. K. Gandhi. It is a follow-up to the acclaimed Gandhi Before India. His large body of work, covering a wide range of fields and yielding a number of rational insights, has made him a significant figure in Indian historical studies, and Guha is valued as one of the major historians of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.The American Historical Association has conferred its Honorary Foreign Member prize for the year 2019 on Ramchandra Guha.
context_section_description: Guha has authored the chapter The VHP Needs To Hear The Condemnation Of The Hindu Middle Ground in the book Gujarat: The making of a tragedy, which was edited by Siddharth Varadarajan and published by Penguin. The book is about the 2002 Gujarat riots.
  Guha is the author of India after Gandhi, published by Macmillan and Ecco in 2007. This book has been translated into Hindi in two volumes as Bharat: Gandhi Ke Baad and Bharat: Nehru Ke Baad and published by Penguin. The Tamil version of the book is published in the name "இந்திய வரலாறு காந்திக்குப் பிறகு ( பாகம் 1 & 2)" ("Indhiya varalaaru Gandhikku pin - Part 1 & 2") by Kizhakku and translated by R. P. Sarathy. The Bengali version of the book is published in the name "গাঁধী-উত্তর ভারতবর্ষ" by Ananda Publishers Private Limited and translated by Ashish Lahiri.
  Guha also published a collection of essays titled Patriots and Partisans in November 2012.
  In October 2013, he published Gandhi Before India, the first part of a planned two-volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi which describes life from his childhood to the two decades in South Africa. Another collection of essays under the title Democrats and Dissenters was released in September 2016. Guha has authored books on a diverse range of subjects including Cricket, Environment, Politics, History, etc.
  In 2018, Guha published Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948, a sequel to his 2013 book, which deals with events from Gandhi coming back to India to his death. It also has an epilogue that discusses the role of Gandhi in contemporary world politics.
caption: Guha delivering a talk at The Doon School's Kilachand Library in 2017.
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