Ramachandra Guha

Engage with the full sweep of modern Indian history through the magisterial works of Ramachandra Guha, India’s preeminent historian, biographer, and public intellectual — a writer whose beautifully crafted, rigorously researched books have done more than any other to shape how Indians and the world understand the making of the Indian republic, the life of Mahatma Gandhi, and the great figures and forces that have defined the subcontinent’s extraordinary modern story. Guha’s landmark work India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy (2007) — a sweeping, authoritative narrative history of India from independence to the present — is widely regarded as the definitive account of the Indian republic and has been translated into numerous languages. His two-volume biography of Gandhi — Gandhi Before India and Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World — is the most comprehensive and scholarly life of the Mahatma yet written. Other essential works include Makers of Modern India, an anthology of India’s greatest political thinkers; A Corner of a Foreign Field, a history of cricket in India; and Environmentalism: A Global History. Guha has been awarded the Leopold-Hidy Prize, the Daily Telegraph Cricket Society Book of the Year, and numerous other honours. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand India.