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Ramachandra Guha

Historian and writer from India · India · Writers · Born 1958 · age 68

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Ramachandra "Ram" Guha is an Indian historian, environmentalist, writer and public intellectual whose research interests include social, political, contemporary, environmental and cricket history. He is an important authority on the history of modern India.

A life in dates

2015Fukuoka Asian Culture PrizeAward2014Honorary Doctor of Yale UniversityAward2011Sahitya Akademi AwardAward1958Born29 April 1958

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  1. Tagore’s poems and stories are mostly set in Bengal.

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  2. Most Indians - and, following Attenborough's film, many non-Indians too - are moderately well acquainted with the colleagues and critics of the mature Gandhi.

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  3. Where do Goldman and Eaton and Trautmann and Zelliot and Gold figure in the canon of South Asian Studies?

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Awards

Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize2015
Honorary Doctor of Yale University2014
Sahitya Akademi Award2011
Padma Bhushan

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Spouse: Sujata Keshavan

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Ramachandra "Ram" Guha is an Indian historian, environmentalist, writer and public intellectual whose research interests include social, political, contemporary, environmental and cricket history. He is an important authority on the history of modern India. 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.

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India
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1958 · age 68

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