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“ramachandra guha”

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  • India After Gandhi

    The History of the World's Largest Democracy

    by Ramachandra Guha ...
    A definitive history of post-Partition India, now revised and updated with extensive new material."Guha has given India the rich, well-paced history it deserves." — Washington Post Book WorldTold in lucid and beautiful prose, the story of India's wild ride toward and since Independence is a riveting one. Taking full advantage of the dramatic details of the protests and conflicts that helped shape ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948

    by Ramachandra Guha ...
    An epic and revelatory biography of one of the most abidingly influential--and controversial--men in modern history.Opening with Gandhi's triumphant return to India in 1915 after decades abroad, and ending with his tragic assassination in 1949, Gandhi: The Years that Changed the World is a remarkable, moving portrait that provides a crucial re-evaluation of India's iconic leader for a new ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Gandhi Before India

    by Ramachandra Guha ...
    The first volume of a magisterial biography: the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of the most abidingly influential--and controversial--men in modern history.Here is a revelatory work of biography that takes us from Gandhi's birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, his 2 years as a student in London, and his 2 decades as a lawyer and community organizer in South Africa. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Picador Book of Cricket

    by Ramachandra Guha ...
    A tribute to the finest writers on the game of cricket and an acknowledgement that the great days of cricket literature are behind us. There was a time when major English writers – P. G. Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alec Waugh – took time off to write about cricket, whereas the cricket book market today is dominated by ghosted autobiographies and statistical compendiums. The Picador Book of ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Arguments with Gandhi

    by Ramachandra Guha ...
    Here is Gandhi for a new century: his major legacies and why they still matter, from his foremost biographer.Gandhi must be on any shortlist of the most impactful political leaders of the twentieth century, and once we eliminate the tyrants—Hitler, Stalin, Mao—Gandhi stands virtually alone. He created one of our most effective weapons for political change in nonviolent collective resistance ... Read more

    $37.29 CAD

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  • Makers of Modern Asia

    by Ramachandra Guha, Jay Taylor, Rana Mitter, Odd Arne Westad, Srinath Raghavan, Farzana Shaikh, James Rush, Michael D. Barr, Jian Chen, Sophie Quinn-Judge0 ...
    Hardly more than a decade old, the twenty-first century has already been dubbed the Asian Century in recognition of China and India’s increasing importance in world affairs. Yet discussions of Asia seem fixated on economic indicators—gross national product, per capita income, share of global trade. Makers of Modern Asia reorients our understanding of contemporary Asia by highlighting the political ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • The Cooking of Books

    A Literary Memoir

    by Ramachandra Guha ...
    It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring.The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious friendship which developed between the famously outspoken historian Ramachandra Guha and his reticent editor Rukun Advani is the subject of this quite eccentric and thoroughly compelling literary memoir ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rebels Against the Raj

    Western Fighters for India's Freedom

    by Ramachandra Guha ...
    An extraordinary history of resistance and the fight for Indian independence—the little-known story of seven foreigners to India who joined the movement fighting for freedom from British colonial rule.Rebels Against the Raj tells the story of seven people who chose to struggle for a country other than their own: foreigners to India who across the late 19th to late 20th century arrived to join the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • An Anthropologist among the Marxists and other Essays

    by Ramachandra Guha ...
    “Inside every thinking Indian there is a Gandhian and a Marxist struggling for supremacy”, says Ramachandra Guha in the opening sentence of this wonderfully readable book of ideas, opinions and reflections. A substantial portion of the book expands on this salvo: it analyses Gandhians and pseudo-Gandhians, Marxists and anti-Marxists, Nehruvians and anti-Secularists, Democrats and Stalinists, ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

  • The Commonwealth of Cricket

    A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind

    by Ramachandra Guha ...
    From one of India’s finest writers, thinkers and commentators, a memoir of a love affair with cricket.As a fan, player, writer, scholar, controversialist and administrator, Ram Guha has spent a life with cricket.In this book, Guha offers both a brilliantly charming memoir and a charter of the life of cricket in India.He traces the game across every level at which it is played: school, college, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Varieties of Environmentalism

    Essays North and South

    by Ramachandra Guha, Joan Martínez Alier ...
    Until very recently, studies of the environmental movement have been heavily biased towards the North Atlantic worlds. There was a common assumption amongst historians and sociologists that concerns over such issues as conservation or biodiversity were the exclusive preserve of the affluent westerner: the ultimate luxury of the consumer society. Citizens of the world's poorest countries, ran the ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • The Last Liberal and Other Essays

    by Ramachandra Guha ...
    I call myself a Nehruvian Indian [and] I like to think that the term "Nehruvian Indian" captures more than my own c.v.', says Ramachandra Guha in his Introduction to this sparkling collection of essays. His book is a meditation on how a large area of contemporary India's cultural and intellectual life has in fact been fashioned by exceptional individuals who have, in diverse ways, imbibed the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD