Ramachandra Guha

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ramachandra Guha
Occupation	Indian writer
Date Of Birth	Apr 29, 1958(1958-04-29)
Age	66
Birthplace	Dehradun
Country	India
Birth City	Uttarakhand
Horoscope	Taurus

Ramachandra Guha Biography

Ramachandra Guha is one of the most popular and richest Indian writer who was born on April 29, 1958 in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India.

Ramachandra Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian and economist 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.

Guha studied at Cambrian Hall and The Doon School. At Doon, he was a contributor to the school newspaper The Doon School Weekly, and edited a publication called History Times along with Amitav Ghosh, later to become a noted writer. He graduated from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi with a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1977, and completed his master’s in economics from the Delhi School of Economics. He then enrolled at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, where he did a PhD on the social history of forestry in Uttarakhand, focusing on the Chipko movement. It was later published as The Unquiet Woods.

Ramachandra Guha Net Worth

Ramachandra Guha is one of the richest Indian writer from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ramachandra Guha 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Guha was born on 29 April 1958 at Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh (now in Uttarakhand) in a Bengali Brahmin family. He was brought up in Dehradun, where his father Subramaniam Ramdas Guha worked at the Forest Research Institute, and his mother was a high-school teacher. While he should have been named Subramaniam Ramachandra in keeping with Tamil name-keeping norms, his teachers at school, presumably while registering his name during admission, were not familiar with these and he came to be called Ramachandra Guha. He grew up in Dehradun, on the Forest Research Institute campus.

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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 (LSE), the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs. His latest book is Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World (2018), the second part of his two- volume biography of M. K. Gandhi. It is a follow-up to the acclaimed Gandhi Before India (2013). 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 (AHA) has conferred its Honorary Foreign Member prize for the year 2019 on Ramchandra Guha. He is the third Indian historian to be recognised by the association, joining the ranks of Romila Thapar and Jadunath Sarkar, who received the honour in 2009 and 1952 respectively.

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Ramaswamy Ranked on the list of most popular Indian writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Ramachandra Guha celebrates birthday on April 29 of every year.

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.

Is Ramchandra Guha a historian?

Guha has written extensively on cricket as a journalist and as a historian. His research into the social history of Indian cricket culminated in his work A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian history of a British Sport in 2002.

Who wrote the book India after Gandhi?

Ramachandra Guha

Are Guha Brahmins?

Guhas mostly belong to Kayastha caste in Bengal. The Bengali Kayasthas evolved as a caste from a category of officials, between the 5th/6th century AD and 11th/12th century AD, its component elements being putative Kshatriyas and mostly Brahmins.

Who is Ramachandra?

Ramchandra or Ramachandra may refer to: Rama, the legendary Indian king regarded as an incarnation of Vishnu. Ramachandra of Devagiri (r. c. 1271–1311), Indian king from the Seuna (Yadava) dynasty. C. Ramchandra (1918–1982), Bollywood music director.

Who wrote India after Gandhi the history of the world's largest democracy?

Ramachandra Guha