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Ramachandra Guha is a historian and biographer based
in Bangalore, who is currently a visiting professor at Yale
University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Guha's first book was The Unquiet Woods, jointly
published by Oxford University Press an the University of
California Press in 1989. This is a social history of the
Himalayan forests, from the nineteenth century down to the
celebrated Chipko movement. In 1999 the OUP and the University
of Chicago Press published Guha's Savaging the Civilized:
Verrier Elwin, His Tribals and India. Among Ramachandra
Guha's other books are Environmentalism: A Global History
(Addison Wesley Longman, 2000), and two books on Indian
ecological conflicts co-authored with Madhav Gadgil: This
Fissured Land (1992) and Ecology and Equity
(1995), these now issued in a joint omnibus edition by the
OUP. His collection of environmental essays, How Much
Should a Person Consume? will be published in fall
2006 by the University of California Press.
Guha has published scholarly essays in Past and Present,
the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute,
Development and Change, and Economic and Political
Weekly. His essay 'Radical American Environmentalism
and Wilderness Preservation' (first published in Environmental
Ethics in 1989) has been reprinted in more than a dozen
anthologies. Aside from his scholarly work, Guha writes
regularly on social and political issues for the general
public. He has a fortnightly column in The Hindu,
one of India's most respected and influential newspapers.
Guha is also known for his writings on India's favourite
sport, cricket. He is the author of two cricket books and
the editor of a third. In 2002, Picador published Ramachandra
Guha's social history of Indian cricket, entitled A
Corner of a Foreign Field.
Guha is now completing a major history of independent India.
This book will be all-India in scope and cover culture and
the arts as well as economics and politics. To be published
by Macmillan in the U. K., by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in
the U. S. A., and by Picador in India, the book will appear
in the summer of 2007.
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