Ramachandra Guha Biography 
Ramachandra Guha is an Indian historian and writer from Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh. He is also a researcher on a wide range of topics. He regularly contributes columns to The Telegraph and Hindustan Times. Guha is married to the graphic designer Sujata Keshavan. Guha was honoured with India's third highest civilian award Padma Bhushan in 2009. His work - India after Gandhi won Sahitya Akademi Award in 2011. US magazine Foreign Policy named him as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in 2008. He was placed at 44th position. He has served as a member of BCCI's panel of administrators for a brief period.
Guha was born on 29 April 1958 at Dehradun, Uttarakhand. His father worked in Forest Research Institute and his mother was a teacher. Guha studied at Cambrian Hall and The Doon School. He contributed the school newspaper - The Doon School Weekly regularly. He graduated from St. Stephen's College, and Master’s from Delhi School of Economics. Then he did a fellowship programme at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, before starting his professional career as a lecturer in 1985. He was in teaching field till 2000, and also taught at various universities in India and abroad.
He moved to Bangalore after that, and became a full-time writer. He also served as a visiting professor in many colleges. He served as Philippe Roman Chair of International Affairs and History at the London School of Economics for 2011–12. As a writer, India after Gandhi is his celebrated work which won him Sahitya Academy award. The book has been translated to Hindi and Tamil languages. 'Patriots and Partisans' is his collection of essays published in 2012. He has written articles on cricket, environmental, social, political and contemporary topics, and many of them were well researched before written and published.
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Updated: October 13, 2018
