Ramachandra Guha

Some Lesser Known Facts About Ramachandra Guha

• Does Ramachandra Guha smoke:? Not Known

• Does Ramachandra Guha drink alcohol:? Not Known

• He was born to a Tamil family and brought up in Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh (Now Uttarkhand), India.

• His mother was a high-school teacher and his father was a director at the Forest Research Institute.

• Guha was an editor of The Doon School Weekly at the Doon School in Dehradun.

• From 1985 to 2000, he taught at various Universities in India, North America and Europe including the Yale University, The University of California, Berkely, Oslo University and Stanford University.

• In the mid-90s, he moved to Bangalore (now Bengaluru) and became a full-time writer.

• He also served as the visiting professor at the Indian Insitute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru.

• He is called a Serial Historian and has written extensively on various subjects like environment, cricket, post-Independence national history and tribes.

• His first book- The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya, was published in 1989.

• His most famous book is India After Gandhi for which he also got the Sahitya Akademi Award. 

• In an interview, he revealed that he became a non-vegetarian during his schools days at the Doon school in Dehra Dun. However, later he turned vegetarian.

• His book on cricket in India- A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport, has also earned critical acclaims. 

• On 30 January 2017, the Supreme Court of India formed a panel headed by Vinod Rai to run BCCI including Ramachandra Guha, Diana Edulji (Former Indian Cricketer) and Vikram Limaye (IDFC Managing Director), a few weeks after the BCCI’s president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke were removed by the Supreme Court because of their inability to implement the Justice Lodha Panel recommendations.