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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, club, state and country. He offers vivid portraits of
local heroes, provincial icons and international stars. Following
the narrative of his life intertwined and in love with the sport,
Guha captures the magic of bat and ball that has ensnared billions.
'A narrative of startling originality ... As discussions of
Britain's colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in
ever more need of nuanced books like this one' SAM DALRYMPLE,
SPECTATOR 'Fascinating and provocative' LITERARY REVIEW Rebels
Against the Raj tells the little-known 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 freedom movement fighting for independence. Of the seven, four
were British, two American, and one Irish. Four men, three women.
Before and after being jailed or deported they did remarkable and
pioneering work in a variety of fields: journalism, social reform,
education, organic agriculture, environmentalism. This book tells
their stories, each renegade motivated by idealism and genuine
sacrifice; each connected to Gandhi, though some as acolytes where
others found endless infuriation in his views; each understanding
they would likely face prison sentences for their resistance, and
likely live and die in India; each one leaving a profound impact on
the region in which they worked, their legacies continuing through
the institutions they founded and the generations and individuals
they inspired. Through the entwined lives, wonderfully told by one
of the world's finest historians, we reach deep insights into
relations between India and the West, and India's story as a
country searching for its identity and liberty beyond British
colonial rule.
'Magisterial' - The Financial Times An updated edition of
Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi with new material that
explains the major events, policy shifts and controversies of the
past decade, placing them in their proper sociological and
historical context and setting out the author's justifiable
concerns for the decline of democracy in India. Born against a
background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of
caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged,
somehow, as a united and democratic country. Ramachandra Guha’s
hugely acclaimed book tells the full story – the pain and the
struggle, the humiliations and the glories – of the world’s
largest and least likely democracy. While India is sometimes the
most exasperating country in the world, it is also the most
interesting. Ramachandra Guha writes compellingly of the myriad
protests and conflicts that have peppered the history of free
India. Moving between history and biography, the story of modern
India is peopled with extraordinary characters. Guha gives fresh
insights into the lives and public careers of those long-serving
Prime Ministers, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. But the book
also writes with feeling and sensitivity about lesser-known (though
not necessarily less important) Indians – peasants, tribals,
women, workers and musicians. Massively researched and elegantly
written, India After Gandhi is a remarkable account of India’s
rebirth, and a work already hailed as a masterpiece of
single-volume history. This third edition brings the story fully up
to date.
Environmental destruction is seen a matter of worldwide concern but
as a Third World problem. This study explores the ecologically
complex country of India, whose peoples range from technocrats to
hunter-gathers and its environments from dense forest to wasteland.
The book analyzes the use and abuse of nature on the sub-continent
to reveal the interconnections of social and environmental conflict
on the global scale. The authors argue that the root of this
conflict is competition within different social groups and between
different economic interests for natural resources.
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, Ramachandra 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, club, state and country. He offers vivid portraits
of local heroes, provincial icons and international stars.
Following the narrative of his life intertwined and in love with
the sport, Guha captures the magic of bat and ball that has
ensnared billions.
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 conventional wisdom, had nothing to gain from environmental
concerns; they were 'too poor to be green', and were attending to
the more urgent business of survival. Yet strong environmental
movements have sprung up over recent decades in some of the poorest
countries in Asia and Latin America, albeit with origins and forms
of expression quite distinct from their western counterparts. In
Varieties of Environmentalism, Guha and Matinez-Alier seek to
articulate the values and orientation of the environmentalism of
the poor, and to explore the conflicting priorities of South and
North that were so dramatically highlighted at the Rio Earth Summit
in 1992. Essays on the 'ecology of affluence' are also included,
placing ion context such uniquely western phenomena as the 'cult of
wilderness' and the environmental justice movement. Using a
combination of archival and field data,. The book presents analyses
of environmental conflicts and ideologies in four continents: North
and South America, Asia and Europe. The authors present the nature
and history of environmental movements in quite a new light, one
which clarifies the issues and the processes behind them. They also
provide reappraisals for three seminal figures, Gandhi,
Georgescu-Roegen and Mumford, whose legacy may yet contribute to a
greater cross-cultural understanding within the environmental
movements.
Environmental destruction is seen a matter of worldwide concern but as a Third World problem. Ecology and Equity explores the most ecologically complex country in the world. India's peoples range from technocrats to hunter-gathers and its environments from dense forest to wasteland. The bookanalyses the use and abuse of nature on the sub-continent to reveal the interconnections of social and environmental conflict on the global scale. The authors argue that the root of this conflict is competition within different social groups and between different economic interests for natural resources. Radical both in its critique of the causes of crisis in India and in its proposals for ecological reform, Ecology and Equity is essential reading for all concerned for the Third World's in the world.
An extraordinary history of resistance and the fight for Indian
independence from Ramachandra Guha. Rebels Against the Raj tells
the little-known 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 freedom movement
fighting for independence. Of the seven, four were British, two
American, and one Irish. Four men, three women. Before and after
being jailed or deported they did remarkable and pioneering work in
a variety of fields: journalism, social reform, education, organic
agriculture, environmentalism. This book tells their stories, each
renegade motivated by idealism and genuine sacrifice; each
connected to Gandhi, though some as acolytes where others found
endless infuriation in his views; each understanding they would
likely face prison sentences for their resistance, and likely live
and die in India; each one leaving a profound impact on the region
in which they worked, their legacies continuing through the
institutions they founded and the generations and individuals they
inspired. Through the entwined lives, wonderfully told by one of
the world's finest historians, we reach deep insights into
relations between India and the West, and India's story as a
country searching for its identity and liberty beyond British
colonial rule.
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Makers of Modern Asia (Paperback)
Ramachandra Guha; Contributions by Ramachandra Guha, Jay Taylor, Rana Mitter, Odd Arne Westad, …
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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 leaders, not billionaire businessmen, who helped
launch the Asian Century. The nationalists who crafted modern Asia
were as much thinkers as activists, men and women who theorized and
organized anticolonial movements, strategized and directed military
campaigns, and designed and implemented political systems. The
eleven thinker-politicians whose portraits are presented here were
a mix of communists, capitalists, liberals, authoritarians, and
proto-theocrats-a group as diverse as the countries they represent.
From China, the world's most populous country, come four: Mao
Zedong, leader of the Communist Revolution; Zhou Enlai, his close
confidant; Deng Xiaoping, purged by Mao but rehabilitated to play a
critical role in Chinese politics in later years; and Chiang
Kai-shek, whose Kuomintang party formed the basis of modern Taiwan.
From India, the world's largest democracy, come three: Mohandas
Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Indira Gandhi, all of whom played
crucial roles in guiding India toward independence and prosperity.
Other exemplary nationalists include Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh,
Indonesia's Sukarno, Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, and Pakistan's
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. With contributions from leading scholars,
Makers of Modern Asia illuminates the intellectual and ideological
foundations of Asia's spectacular rise to global prominence.
Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling,
polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The
existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime
qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles.
Furthermore, India's leading political thinkers have often served
as its most influential political actors-think of Gandhi, whose
collected works run to more than ninety volumes, or Ambedkar, or
Nehru, who recorded their most eloquent theoretical reflections at
the same time as they strove to set the delicate machinery of
Indian democracy on a coherent and just path. Out of the speeches
and writings of these thinker-activists, Ramachandra Guha has built
the first major anthology of Indian social and political thought.
Makers of Modern India collects the work of nineteen of India's
foremost generators of political sentiment, from those whose names
command instant global recognition to pioneering subaltern and
feminist thinkers whose works have until now remained obscure and
inaccessible. Ranging across manifold languages and cultures, and
addressing every crucial theme of modern Indian history-race,
religion, language, caste, gender, colonialism, nationalism,
economic development, violence, and nonviolence-Makers of Modern
India provides an invaluable roadmap to Indian political debate. An
extensive introduction, biographical sketches of each figure, and
guides to further reading make this work a rich resource for anyone
interested in India and the ways its leading political minds have
grappled with the problems that have increasingly come to define
the modern world.
Based on research conducted over two decades, this accessible and
deeply felt book provides a provocative comparative history of
environmentalism in two large ecologically and culturally diverse
democracies--India and the United States. Ramachandra Guha takes as
his point of departure the dominant environmental philosophies in
these two countries--identified as "agrarianism" in India and
"wilderness thinking" in the U.S. Proposing an inclusive "social
ecology" framework that goes beyond these partisan ideologies, Guha
arrives at a richer understanding of controversies over large dams,
state forests, wildlife reserves, and more. He offers trenchant
critiques of privileged and isolationist proponents of
conservation, persuasively arguing for biospheres that care as much
for humans as for other species. He also provides profiles of three
remarkable environmental thinkers and activists--Lewis Mumford,
Chandi Prasad Bhatt, and Madhav Gadgil. Finally, the author asks
the fundamental environmental question--how much should a person or
country consume?--and explores a range of answers.
"Copub: Permanent Black"
'Essential reading ... will not be bettered' Ferdinand Mount, Wall
Street Journal 'Gandhi's finest biographer' David Kynaston,
Guardian The magnificent new biography of Gandhi by India's leading
historian A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 Gandhi lived one of
the great 20th-century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged
and galvanized many millions of men and women around the world. He
lived almost entirely in the shadow of the British Raj, which for
much of his life seemed a permanent fact, but which he did more
than anyone else to destroy, using revolutionary tactics. In a
world defined by violence on a scale never imagined before and by
ferocious Fascist and Communist dictatorship, he was armed with
nothing more than his arguments and example. This magnificent book
tells the story of Gandhi's life, from his departure from South
Africa to his assassination in 1948. It is a book with a Tolstoyan
sweep, both allowing us to see Gandhi as he was understood by his
contemporaries and the vast, varied Indian societies and landscapes
which he travelled through and changed beyond measure. Drawing on
many new sources and animated by its author's wonderful sense of
drama and politics, Gandhi is a major reappraisal of the crucial
years in this titanic figure's story.
Ecologist Madhav Gadgil and historian Ramachandra Guha offer fresh
perspectives both on the ecological history of India and on
theoretical issues of interest to environmental historians
regardless of geographical specialization. Juxtaposing data from
India with the ecological literature on lifestyles as diverse as
those of modern Americans and Amazonian Indians, the authors
analyze the social conflicts that have emerged over environmental
exploitation and explore the impact of changing patterns of
resource use on human societies. They present a socio-ecological
analysis of the modes of resource use introduced to India by the
British, and explore popular resistance to state environmental
policies in both the colonial and post-colonial periods.
"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 the wider world. A new appendix charts the
progress of environmental history in India. The bibliography and
index have been revised and updated.
This Fissured Land, first published in 1992, presents an
interpretative history ecological history of the Indian
subcontinent. It offers a theory of ecological prudence and
profligacy, testing this theory across the wide sweep of South
Asian history. The book especially focuses on the use and abuse of
forest resources. In Part One, the authors present a general theory
of ecological history. Part Two provides a fresh interpretative
history of pre-modern India along with an ecological interpretation
of the caste system. In Part Three, the authors draw upon a huge
wealth of source material in their socio-ecological analysis of the
modes of resource use introduced in India by the British.
The Second Edition comes with a new Preface by the authors.
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