{"title":"Ramachandra Guha","description":"\u003cp\u003eEngage with the full sweep of modern Indian history through the magisterial works of \u003cstrong\u003eRamachandra Guha\u003c\/strong\u003e, 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 \u003cem\u003eIndia After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e (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 — \u003cem\u003eGandhi Before India\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGandhi: The Years That Changed the World\u003c\/em\u003e — is the most comprehensive and scholarly life of the Mahatma yet written. Other essential works include \u003cem\u003eMakers of Modern India\u003c\/em\u003e, an anthology of India’s greatest political thinkers; \u003cem\u003eA Corner of a Foreign Field\u003c\/em\u003e, a history of cricket in India; and \u003cem\u003eEnvironmentalism: A Global History\u003c\/em\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"gandhi-before-india","title":"Gandhi Before India","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1893, when Mohandas Gandhi set sail for South Africa, he was a briefless lawyer who had failed to establish himself in India. In this remarkable biography, Ramachandra Guha argues that the two decades that Gandhi spent in the diaspora were the making of the Mahatma. It was here that he forged the philosophy and techniques that would ultimately destroy the British Empire. Based on archival research in four continents, this book explores Gandhi's experiments with dissident cults, his friendships and enmities, and his failures as a husband and father. Gandhi Before India tells the dramatic story of how he mobilized a cross-class and inter-religious coalition, pledged to non-violence in their battle against a racist regime. Deeply researched and beautifully written, this book will radically alter our understanding and appreciation of modern India's greatest man.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dusky's Shrine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46035940606009,"sku":"9780143423416","price":629.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3367\/0457\/files\/81rT7OvjHJL._SL1500_bcd7e90f-67be-484a-8601-5284c58798a1.jpg?v=1782814744"},{"product_id":"gandhi-the-years-that-changed-the-world","title":"Gandhi: the Years That Changed the World","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeginning in July 1914, as Mohandas Gandhi leaves South Africa to return to India, Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948 traces the Mahatma's life over the three decades preceding his assassination. Drawing on new archival materials, acclaimed historian Ramachandra Guha follows Gandhi's struggle to deliver India from British rule, to forge harmonious relations between India's Hindus and Muslims, to end the pernicious practice of untouchability and to nurture India's economic and moral self-reliance. Guha shows how, in each of these campaigns, Gandhi adapted methods of non-violence that successfully challenged British authority and influenced revolutionary movements throughout the world. A revelatory look at the complexity of Gandhi's thinking and motives, the book is a luminous portrait of the man himself, as well as his family, friends, colleagues, rivals and adversaries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dusky's Shrine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46035996147769,"sku":"9780143452652","price":1169.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3367\/0457\/files\/71JUEGFUbRL._SL1500_89735183-ecc3-4bf5-b91a-073fe8297ab1.jpg?v=1782815201"},{"product_id":"savaging-the-civilized","title":"Savaging the Civilized","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis evocative and beautifully written book brings to life one of the most remarkable figures of twentieth-century India. Verrier Elwin (1902-64) was an anthropologist, poet, Gandhian, hedonist, Englishman, and Indian. Savaging the Civilized reveals a many-sided man, a friend of the elite who was at home with the impoverished and the destitute; a charismatic charmer of women who was comfortable with intellectuals such as Arthur Koestler and Jawaharlal Nehru; an anthropologist who lived with and loved the tribes yet who wrote literary essays and monographs for the learned.Savaging the Civilized is both biography and history, an exploration through Elwin's life of some of the great debates of our times, such as the impact of economic development, and cultural pluralism versus cultural homogeneity. For this new edition, Ramachandra Guha has updated the epilogue to take account of the growing influence of Naxalites in Adivasi areas. He has also added a fresh introduction, stressing the relevance of Elwin's life and work to current debates on Indian democracy and pluralism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dusky's Shrine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46036860010553,"sku":"9780143427667","price":629.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3367\/0457\/files\/715TpBx2opL._SL1500_ffd82303-86db-4df1-82d7-ad90e92a15b4.jpg?v=1782816681"},{"product_id":"a-functioning-anarchy","title":"Functioning Anarchy?","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a long and versatile career spanning thirty-five years, Ramachandra Guha has produced a vast body of work. Each time, he has broken new ground-his pioneering environmental histories of India and his still-relevant work on ecology and equity; his social histories of Indian cricket; his monumental history of the Indian republic; his biographies of Verrier Elwin and Gandhi; his anthologies of ecological, social and political thought in India; and his collections of biographical and political essays. Sparked by Guha's wide-ranging and important work, A Functioning Anarchy is a collection of essays by historians, social scientists, ecologists and journalists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dusky's Shrine","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":46036863647801,"sku":"9780670093700","price":899.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3367\/0457\/files\/61QRcw5R_8S._SL1000_44209b9b-6afe-4f29-af1b-8344920708ba.jpg?v=1782816716"},{"product_id":"india-after-gandhi","title":"India After Gandhi","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Finally, here is a history of democratic India that is every bit as sweeping as the country itself . . . [A] magisterial work’ Financial Times ‘Guha has given democratic India the rich, well-paced history it deserves’ Washington Post ‘An insightful, spirited and elegantly crafted account of India since 1947’ Times Literary Supplement ‘A magnificently told history of the world’s largest democracy’ India Today Ramachandra Guha’s India After Gandhi is a magisterial account of the pains, struggles, humiliations and glories of the world’s largest and least likely democracy. A riveting chronicle of the often brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation, and of the extraordinary individuals and institutions who held it together, it established itself as a classic when it was first published in 2007. In the years since the publication of the book’s tenth anniversary edition, India has witnessed, among other things, demonetization and a devastating pandemic; Narendra Modi’s re-election as Prime Minister; more violence against women, Dalits, and religious minorities; a wave of prosperity for some but the persistence of poverty for others; the abrogation of Kashmir’s autonomous status; large-scale citizens’ protests and unprecedented state crackdown on dissent. This third edition, revised and expanded, brings the narrative up to the present. Published to coincide with the seventy-fifth anniversary of Gandhi’s assassination, this definitive history of modern India is the work of one of the world’s finest scholars at the height of his powers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dusky's Shrine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46037992570937,"sku":"9789395624596","price":1079.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3367\/0457\/files\/618U-Rl4bML._SL1500_88bb1d9f-2143-4242-909a-ce75befe5b7a.jpg?v=1782822061"},{"product_id":"patriots-and-partisans","title":"Patriots and Partisans - PB","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this wide-ranging collection of essays, Ramachandra Guha defends the liberal centre against the dogmas of left and right, and does so with style, depth, and polemical verve. Among the subjects on which he turns a critical eye are Hindutva, the Communist left and the dynasty-obsessed Congress party. Whether writing about politics, profiling individuals or analysing social trends, Guha displays a masterly touch, confirming his standing as India's most admired historian and public intellectual.Key Features:Written in a wonderfully readable style, will provoke much debate and discussionCovering a wide range of subjects of contemporary relevance, such as:An essay on the threats to the Indian republic from the Right, the Left and the state itselfAn analysis comparing and contrasting two old men, PM Manmohan Singh and Anna HazareAn examination of the dynasty-obsessed Congress Party and its culture of sycophancyHindutva hate mail which floods the Internet\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dusky's Shrine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46039838949433,"sku":"9780143421146","price":449.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3367\/0457\/files\/71agtjcNNJL._SL1500_1cd756d7-259c-4f58-beb0-791fc92be547.jpg?v=1782835039"},{"product_id":"voices-of-dissent-an-essay","title":"Voices of Dissent: An Essay","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by one of India’s best-known public intellectuals, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in India’s fascinating history as well as the direction in which the nation is headed. People have argued since time immemorial. Disagreement is a part of life, of human experience. But we now live in times when any form of protest in India is marked as anti-Indian and met with arguments that the very concept of dissent was imported into India from the West. As Romila Thapar explores in her timely historical essay, however, dissent has a long history in the subcontinent, even if its forms have evolved through the centuries. In Voices of Dissent: An Essay, Thapar looks at the articulation of nonviolent dissent and relates it to various pivotal moments throughout India’s history. Beginning with Vedic times, she takes us from the second to the first millennium BCE, to the emergence of groups that were jointly called the Shramanas—the Jainas, Buddhists, and Ajivikas. Going forward in time, she also explores the views of the Bhakti sants and others of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and brings us to a major moment of dissent that helped to establish a free and democratic India: Mahatma Gandhi’s satyagraha. Then Thapar places in context the recent peaceful protests against India’s new, controversial citizenship law, maintaining that dissent in our time must be opposed to injustice and supportive of democratic rights so that society may change for the better.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dusky's Shrine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46039853662265,"sku":"9781803092706","price":449.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0795\/3367\/0457\/files\/614xl4mAcNL._SL1500.jpg?v=1782835347"},{"product_id":"india-after-gandhi-a-history","title":"India After Gandhi: A History (","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Finally, here is a history of democratic India that is every bit as sweeping as the country itself . . .[A] magisterial work’ Financial Times ‘Guha has given democratic India the rich, well-paced history it deserves’ Washington Post ‘An insightful, spirited and elegantly crafted account of India since 1947’ Times Literary Supplement ‘A magnificently told history of the world’s largest democracy’ India Today Ramachandra Guha’s India After Gandhi is a magisterial account of the pains, struggles, humiliations and glories of the world’s largest and least likely democracy. 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