“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... More

Told in lucid and beautiful prose, the story of Indias wild ride since independence is a riveting one. Guha explores the dramatic protests and conflicts that have shaped modern India, but he writes also of the factors that have kept the country together.Born against a background of privation and civ... More

This collection of three of the key studies by one of India's greatest historians and environmentalists offers an extremely well-written and handy presentation of modern-day environmental movements, ideas, and trends, as well as pioneers in the field. Guha provides a new introduction.... More

"Expanded Edition"This new, expanded edition of "The Unquiet Woods," Ramachandra Guha's pathbreaking study of peasant movements against commercial forestry, offers a new epilogue that brings the story of Himalayan social protest up-to-date, reflecting the Chipko movement's continuing influence in th... More

This volume collects a set of pioneering essays on the environmental history of South Asia from a distinguished international group of historians.... More

Environmentalism: A Global History is an addition to the popular "Longman World History Series," edited by Michael Adas. Written by one of the foremost thinkers on ecological issues relating to South Africa, this new text offers a cross-cultural and global survey of environmental thinking and the mo... More