Ramachandra Guha

Guha was born on 29 April 1958 in Dehradun (now in Uttarakhand){{Cite web|url=https://scroll.in/article/1005143/ramachandra-guha-celebrating-the-life-of-keshav-desiraju-a-true-nehruvian-indian|access-date=2022-01-14|website=Scroll|publisher=Scroll.in|language=en|title=Ramachandra Guha: Celebrating the life of Keshav Desiraju – a true Nehruvian Indian|date=12 September 2021 }} into a Tamil Brahmin family.{{Cite news |last=Harad |first=Tejas |url=https://www.newslaundry.com/2017/06/14/response-ramchandra-guha-gandhi-caste |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927122203/https://www.newslaundry.com/2017/06/14/response-ramchandra-guha-gandhi-caste |archive-date=September 27, 2023 |title=Does Ramachandra Guha have a caste? |quote=Guha is, I suppose, a proud Tamil Brahmin. |publisher=Newslaundry |date=14 June 2017 }} He was raised in Dehradun, where his father Subramaniam Ramdas Guha worked at the Forest Research Institute,{{Cite news |url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/lunch-with-bs-ramachandra-guha-107050801041_1.html |url-status=live |title=Lunch with BS: Ramachandra Guha |last=Bhandari |first=Bhupesh |date=8 May 2007 |work=Business Standard India |access-date=19 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111061510/https://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/lunch-with-bs-ramachandra-guha-107050801041_1.html |archive-date=January 11, 2014 |quote=For the record, Guha himself is a Tamil from Bangalore. }}{{Cite news |url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/ram-guha-a-radical-progressive/299987 |title=Ram Guha: A Radical Progressive |last=Gadgil |first=Madhav |date=9 April 2018 |work=Outlook India |access-date=19 July 2018}} 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 norms, and he came to be known as Ramachandra Guha. He grew up in Dehradun, on the Forest Research Institute campus.{{cite web |url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/who-milks-this-cow/282904 |title=Who Milks This Cow? |last=Guha |first=Ramachandra |date=19 November 2012 |access-date=19 July 2018 |magazine=Outlook India}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1071027/asp/opinion/story_8472620.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028091359/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1071027/asp/opinion/story_8472620.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 October 2007 |title=A Unique Trail - Twist in the tale of the search for an elusive book |last=Guha |first=Ramachandra |date=27 October 2007 |work=The Telegraph |access-date=19 July 2018}}

Guha studied at Cambrian Hall and The Doon School.{{Cite news |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/why-the-dalai-lama-may-be-india-s-noblest-resident/story-bC3fLiyteosMwuEvIRkBsI.html |title=Why the Dalai Lama may be India's noblest resident |last=Guha |first=Ramachandra |date=30 January 2016 |work=Hindustan Times |access-date=20 July 2018}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/dehradun/dosco-amitav-ghosh-celebrates-his-60th-birthday.html |title='Dosco' Amitav Ghosh celebrates his 60th Birthday |last=Chopra |first=Jaskiran |date=12 July 2016 |work=The Pioneer |access-date=20 July 2018}} 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, who later became a noted writer.{{Cite news |url=https://www.thestatesman.com/features/nature-cricket-literature-history-1502519395.html |title=Of nature, cricket, literature and history |last=Chopra |first=Jaskiran |date=29 October 2017 |work=The Statesman |access-date=20 July 2018}}'History of the Weekly' published by The Doon School (2009), p. 36. He graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1977,{{cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/the-shrinking-of-st-stephen-s/story-NkEEHvX9dlOTeqOgqOAz8O.html|title=The shrinking of St. Stephen's|work=Hindustan Times |date=11 August 2018}} and completed his master's in economics from the Delhi School of Economics.{{Cite news |url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/st-stephens-murder-in-the-cathedral/234958 |title=St Stephen's: Murder In The Cathedral? |last=Guha |first=Ramachandra |date=25 June 2007 |work=Outlook India |access-date=20 July 2018}} He then enrolled at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, where he earned a Ph.D. in sociology, focusing on history and prehistory of the Chipko movement. It was later published as The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya.{{cite web|title=Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (also referred to as IIM Calcutta or IIMC) website|url=https://www.iimcal.ac.in/ramachandra-guha|website=www.iimcal.ac.in}}{{Cite web |title=Ramachandra Guha {{!}} Center for Contemporary South Asia |url=https://watson.brown.edu/southasia/people/ramachandra-guha |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=watson.brown.edu}}

File:Ram Guha Doon School library.jpg's Kilachand Library in 2017.]]Guha has authored books on a diverse range of subjects including cricket, the environment, politics, and history.{{cite web|title=Ramachandra Guha|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/67629.Ramachandra_Guha|access-date=20 April 2019|website=Goodreads.com}} Guha was a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Science for a year beginning in July 2019.{{Cite news|agency=Press Trust of India |date=July 2, 2019 |title=Ramachandra Guha to join IISc as visiting professor|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/news/story/ramachandra-guha-to-join-iisc-as-visiting-professor-1560448-2019-07-02|access-date=2021-11-20|work=India Today|language=en}} He is the trustee of the New India Foundation fellowship programme, which he himself conceptualised in 2004.{{Cite web|date=2020-07-07|title=Ramachandra Guha: 'Each one of us has rejected close friends' for the NIF|url=https://lifestyle.livemint.com//news/talking-point/ramachandra-guha-each-one-of-us-has-rejected-close-friends-for-the-nif-111634475023316.html|access-date=2021-11-05|website=Mintlounge|language=en}} He has taught at the following universities: Krea, Stanford, Yale, Berlin Institute for Advanced Study, Indian Institute of Science, and University of California at Berkeley. He held the Arné Naess Chair at the University of Oslo, the Indo-American Community Chair at the University of California at Berkeley, and the Philipe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at the London School of Economics.{{Cite web|title=Ramachandra Guha {{!}} Center for Contemporary South Asia|url=https://watson.brown.edu/southasia/people/ramachandra-guha|access-date=2021-11-20|website=watson.brown.edu}}

Guha is the author of India after Gandhi, published by Macmillan and Ecco in 2007. The book was an instant hit and is considered an essential literature in space of modern Indian history.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}} It was chosen Book of the Year by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal and Outlook Magazine. The book was one of the best non-fiction books of the decade (2010–2019) as per The Hindu.{{cite news|title=Best non-fiction books of the decade|newspaper=The Hindu|date=28 December 2019|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/best-non-fiction-books-of-the-decade/article30413098.ece}} The book won the 2011 Sahitya Akademi Award for English for 'narrative history'.{{Cite press release|title=Poets Dominate Sahitya Akademi Awards 2011|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|date=2011-12-21|url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/award-2011.pdf#3|access-date=2011-12-21|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508031321/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/award-2011.pdf|archive-date=2012-05-08}}.

In 2010, Guha wrote the introduction for and edited Makers of Modern India, which profiles 19 Indians who helped in forming and shaping India. The book contains excerpts of their speeches and essays, and covers topics such as religion, caste, colonialism, and nationalism.{{Cite web |title=Makers Of Modern India |url=https://penguin.co.in/book/makers-of-modern-india-2/ |access-date=2022-07-16 |website=Penguin Random House India |language=en-US}}File:Ramachandra Guha.jpg's event]]

In October 2013, he authored Gandhi Before India, the first part of a two-volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi. The biography documents his life from 1869 to 1914, covering events from his childhood to the two decades he spent in South Africa.{{cite book|url=https://penguin.co.in/book/uncategorized/gandhi-before-india/ |title=Gandhi Before India |year=2014 |publisher=Penguin India |isbn=978-0-1434-2341-6 |access-date=20 April 2019}}{{cite news| url=http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/21/a-conversation-with-historian-ramachandra-guha | work=The New York Times | first=Basharat | last=Peer | title=A Conversation With: Historian Ramachandra Guha | date=21 October 2013}} In 2018, he authored the standalone sequel Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948, which covers events from when Gandhi returned to India in 1914 to his death in 1948. The book subsumes a lot of new archival material that was discovered only in the 21st century. It has an epilogue which discusses the role of Gandhi in contemporary world politics.{{Cite web |title=Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948 by Ramachandra Guha: 9780307474797 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/196463/gandhi-the-years-that-changed-the-world-1914-1948-by-ramachandra-guha/ |access-date=2022-07-14 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US}}

In 2022, Guha authored Rebels Against the Raj, which tells the story of 7 Westerners who came to, lived in, and served India in its quest for independence from the British Raj.{{Cite web |title=Rebels Against the Raj by Ramachandra Guha: 9781101874837 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/247937/rebels-against-the-raj-by-ramachandra-guha/ |access-date=2022-07-14 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US}}

His books are amongst the most sought-after by history students and civil service aspirants in India.{{Cite web|last=Jaishankar|first=Dhruva|title=India's 5 most important public intellectuals – and what this list says about our national discourse|url=https://scroll.in/article/866705/five-wise-men-these-individuals-are-indias-most-important-public-intellectuals-today|access-date=2022-01-13|website=Scroll.in|date=6 February 2018 |language=en-US|quote=Ramachandra Guha: Guha has written eloquently on history, politics, environmentalism, and cricket. No other writer is read as much by aspirants to the Indian civil services examination.}}

Guha has published a collection of essays, two of them being Patriots and Partisans (2012) and Democrats and Dissenters (2016). In 1999, he was offered to write a biography of Atal Bihari Vajpayee which he declined.{{Cite web|last=Ramachandra Guha|title=VIGNETTES OF VAJPAYEE, The Hindu|url=https://ramachandraguha.in/archives/vignettes-of-vajpayee-the-hindu.html|access-date=2021-11-20|website=::Welcome to Ramachandra Guha.in|language=en-US}}

Guha earned a PhD on the social history of forestry in Uttarakhand, focusing on the Chipko movement.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}} He produced a biography of the anthropologist Verrier Elwin in 1999,{{Cite web |title=Savaging The Civilized |url=https://penguin.co.in/book/savaging-the-civilized/ |access-date=2022-07-14 |website=Penguin Random House India |language=en-US}} and in the same year wrote a book on environmentalism called Environmentalism: A Global History{{Cite web |title=Environmentalism - Ramachandra Guha - 9780321011695 - History - United States & the Americas (92) |url=https://www.pearson.ch/HigherEducation/Pearson/EAN/9780321011695/Environmentalism |access-date=5 February 2023}}. In 2006, he authored How Much Should a Person Consume?.{{Cite book |last=Guha |first=Ramachandra |url=https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520248052/how-much-should-a-person-consume |title=How Much Should a Person Consume?: Environmentalism in India and the United States |date=November 2006 |others=Rukun Advani |publisher=Univ of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-24805-2 |language=en}}

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, which was released in 2002.{{Cite book|last=Guha|first=Ramachandra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PxCie1XxHPEC|title=A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport|date=2003|publisher=Picador|isbn=978-0-330-49117-4|language=en}} The book charts the development of cricket in India from its inception during the British Raj to its position in contemporary India as the nation's favourite pastime.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}File:Ramachandra guha.jpg

He was appointed to BCCI's panel of administrators by the Supreme Court of India on 30 January 2017, as part of the Lodha Committee reforms, only to resign in July of the same year.[http://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/ramachandra-guha-accepts-sc-s-nomination-to-bcci-s-panel-of-administrators/story-DimGN3nJQrDIVEtsPXgJyL.html "Ramachandra Guha accepts SC's nomination to BCCI's panel of administrators"], Hindustan Times, 30 January 2017.

In November 2020, he published The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind, a personal account of the transformation of cricket in India across all levels at which the game is played. It presents vivid portraits of local heroes, provincial icons, and international stars through the 50 years he has been following the game. The book blends between memoir, anecdote, reportage, and political critique.{{Cite book|last=Guha|first=Ramachandra|url=https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780008422509/the-commonwealth-of-cricket-a-lifelong-love-affair-with-the-most-subtle-and-sophisticated-game-known-to-humankind/|title=The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind|date=2020|publisher=Harper Collins|isbn=978-93-90327-28-7|language=en|access-date=16 September 2020|archive-date=16 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916234647/https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/9780008422509/the-commonwealth-of-cricket-a-lifelong-love-affair-with-the-most-subtle-and-sophisticated-game-known-to-humankind/|url-status=dead}}

File:Ramachandra Guha at Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad State Conference 2019, Pramadam, Pathanamthitta, Kerala, India.jpg

Guha lives in the city of Bengaluru. He is married to Sujata Keshavan, a graphic designer, and they have two children together. Their son, Keshava Guha, is a novelist, who announced the release of his first novel, Accidental Magic, at the 2019 Bangalore Literature Festival. He competed in the first UK series of the quiz show Jeopardy!Vidya Iyengar (11 November 2019), [https://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/books/2019/nov/11/could-have-been-compared-to-my-father-if-he-wrote-fiction-author-keshava-guha-2059926.html "Could have been compared to my father if he wrote fiction: Author Keshava Guha"], The News Indian Express. Retrieved 28 January 2019.{{cite web | url=https://georginacapel.com/news/keshava-guha-is-a-contestant-on-new-series-of-jeopardy | title=Keshava Guha is a contestant on the new series of Jeopardy }}

Guha is a nephew of the distinguished organic chemist Krishnaswami Venkataraman, the husband of Guha's paternal aunt Shakuntala and the first Indian director of the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL). Venkataraman's only child, the late economic historian Dharma Kumar, was a first cousin of Guha,{{cite journal |last1=Guha |first1=C. Ramachandra |date=December 2004 |title=Personal Reflections: A Nephew Remembers |journal=Resonance |volume=9 |issue=12 |pages=78–80 |doi=10.1007/BF02834312}} and her daughter, the feminist and academic Radha Kumar, is Guha's first cousin once removed. According to Guha, he was close to Venkataraman, who expected his nephew would also become a chemist; although he ultimately decided upon sociology, he credited his uncle as being one of the two people "from whom I learnt that to do something well, one had to do it thoroughly."

Guha doesn't drink alcohol.{{Cite web |title=The Constant Writer |url=https://openthemagazine.com/lounge/books/the-constant-writer/ |website=Open Magazine|date=6 May 2012 }} He lists books, cricket, Hindustani classical music and the iconic eatery of Koshy's in Bangalore as his favorites.{{Cite web |last=Guha |first=Ramachandra |date=2020-10-11 |title=Ramachandra Guha: At Koshy's Parade Café, memories of lime juice – and an owl on a moonlit night |url=https://scroll.in/article/975462/ramachandra-guha-at-koshys-parade-cafe-memories-of-lime-juice-and-an-owl-on-a-moonlit-night |access-date=2024-08-14 |website=Scroll.in |language=en}}

He also writes a column called "Boothavum Varthamanavum"("Past and Present") in the weekly magazine, Mathrubhumi Azhchappathippu.

• His essay, "Prehistory of Community Forestry in India", was awarded the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society for Environmental History for 2001.
• A Corner of a Foreign Field was awarded the Daily Telegraph Cricket Society Book of the Year prize for 2002.
• He won the R. K. Narayan Prize at the Chennai Book Fair in 2003.
• The US magazine Foreign Policy named him as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in May 2008. In the poll that followed, Guha was placed 44th.[https://foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4293 Foreign Policy: Top 100 Intellectuals] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100125121040/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4293 |date=25 January 2010 }}
• Padma Bhushan in 2009, India's third highest civilian award.{{cite web|title=Padma Bhushan for Shekhar Gupta, Abhinav Bindra|date=25 January 2009|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/padma-bhushan-for-shekhar-gupta-abhinav-bindra/415108|access-date=26 January 2009}}
• 2011 Sahitya Akademi Award for India after Gandhi.{{Cite press release|title=POETS DOMINATE SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARDS 2011|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|date=21 December 2011|url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/award-2011.pdf|access-date=21 December 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508031321/http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/pdf/award-2011.pdf|archive-date=8 May 2012|df=dmy-all}}
• In 2014, Guha was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities by Yale University{{cite web|title=Yale Awards 12 Honorary Degrees at 2014 Graduation|url=http://news.yale.edu/2014/05/19/yale-awards-12-honorary-degrees-2014-graduation|work=YaleNews|date=19 May 2014|location= New Haven, Connecticut}}
• Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, 2015{{cite web|title=Historian Ramachandra Guha Selected for Japan's Fukuoka Prize|url=http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/historian-ramachandra-guha-selected-for-japans-fukuoka-prize-773544|publisher=NDTV|access-date=21 June 2015}}
• The American Historical Association (AHA) has conferred its Honorary Foreign Member prize for the year 2019 on Ramchandra Guha.{{cite web |title=Honorary Foreign Member Recipient |url=https://www.historians.org/awards-and-grants/past-recipients/honorary-foreign-member-recipients |website=historians.org |publisher=American Historical association |access-date=1 March 2021}}

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• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya | publisher = University of California Press | location = Berkeley; Oxford University Press (OUP) | year = 1989 | isbn = 978-0-520-22235-9 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = Wickets in the East | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = India | year = 1992 | isbn = 978-0-19-562809-8 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | last2 = Gadgil | first2 = Madhav| title = This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India | publisher = University of California Press | location = Berkeley; Oxford University Press (OUP) | year = 1993 | isbn = 978-0-520-08296-0 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | last2 = Vaidyanathan | first2 = T.G.|title = An Indian Cricket Omnibus| publisher = Oxford University Press | location = India | year = 1994 | isbn = 978-0-19-563427-3 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | last2 = Gadgil | first2 = Madhav|title = Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India | publisher = Penguin India | location = India | year = 1995 | isbn = 978-0-415-12524-6 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | last2 = Alier | first2 = Joan Martinez|title =Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays North and South | publisher = Penguin India | location = India | year = 1997 | isbn = 978-1-85383-329-8 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = Social Ecology | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = India | year = 1998 | isbn = 978-0-19-564454-8 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | last2 = Arnold | first2 = David |title = Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 1998 | isbn = 978-0-19-564075-5 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = Savaging the Civilized: Verrier Elwin, his tribals and India| publisher = University of California Press | location = Berkeley; Oxford University Press (OUP) | year = 1999 | isbn = 978-0-19-564781-5 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = Spin and Other Turns| publisher = Penguin India | location = India | year = 2000 | isbn = 978-0-14-024720-6 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = An Anthropologist Among the Marxists, and other essays| publisher = Orient Blackswan | location = New Delhi, India | year = 2000 | isbn = 978-81-7824-001-5 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = The Picador Book of Cricket | publisher = Pan Macmillan | location = India| year = 2001 | isbn = 978-0-330-39613-4 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | last2 = Krishnan | first2 = M |title = Nature's Spokesman: M. Krishnan and Indian Wildlife | publisher = Picador | year = 2001 | isbn = 978-0-19-565911-5 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = A Corner of a Foreign Field: An Indian history of a British sport | publisher = Picador | year = 2004 | isbn = 978-0-330-49117-4}}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = The Last Liberal and Other Essays| publisher = Permanent Black | year = 2004 | isbn = 978-81-7824-073-2}}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = The States of Indian Cricket: Anecdotal Histories | publisher = Permanent Black | year = 2005 | isbn = 978-81-7824-108-1}}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = How Much Should a Person Consume?: Thinking Through the Environment| publisher = University of California Press | location = Berkeley; Oxford University Press (OUP) | year = 2006 | isbn = 978-93-5009-259-0 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = India after Gandhi: The history of the world's largest democracy | publisher = Picador | year = 2007 | isbn = 978-0-330-50554-3 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | last2 = Parry | first2 = Jonathan P| title = Institutions and Inequalities: Essays in Honour of Andre Beteille | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 2011 | isbn = 978-0-19-807552-3}}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = Makers of Modern India| publisher = Penguin India | location = India | year = 2012 | isbn = 978-0-14-341924-2 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = Patriots & Partisans | publisher = Penguin | year = 2012 | isbn = 978-0-670-08386-2 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = Gandhi Before India | publisher = Penguin | year = 2013 | isbn = 978-0-670-08387-9 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = Environmentalism: A Global History| publisher = Penguin UK | location = United Kingdom| year = 2014 | isbn = 978-0-321-01169-5 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title = Democrats and Dissenters| publisher = Penguin India | location = India | year = 2016 | isbn = 978-0670089369 }}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title=Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World, 1914-1948 |date=2018 |publisher=Knopf |isbn=978-0-385-53231-0}}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title=The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind |date=2020 |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=978-93-90327-28-7}}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title=Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom|date=2022|publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=978-0-008-49876-4}}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title=Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism|date=2024|publisher=Fourth Estate India |isbn=978-9362134905}}
• {{cite book | last1 = Guha | first1 = Ramachandra | title=The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir |date=2024|publisher=Juggernaut |isbn=978-9353457099}}

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