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Gandhi 1915-1948 - The Years That Changed the World by Ramachandra Guha
Category: Biography
Gandhi lived one of the great 20th-century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and delighted many million 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 destro ...Show more
Gandhi Before India by Ramachandra Guha
Category: Non-Fiction
The first volume of the definitive biography of Gandhi, one of the most remarkable figures of the 20th century, from the great historian Ramachandra Guha. The life of Mohandas Gandhi is one of the most remarkable and potent in the modern era. In this fascinating new biography Ramachandra Guha allows us ...Show more
Gandhi Before India by Ramachandra Guha
Category: Biography
The definitive life of one of the most remarkable figures of the 20th centuryNew York Times Book Review Books of the Year 2014In this fascinating new biography Ramachandra Guha allows us to understand the personality and politics of Mohandas Gandhi as never before. Showing that Gandhi's ideas were funda ...Show more
Gandhi: the Years That Changed the World by Ramachandra Guha
Category: Biography
Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and delighted many million 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 destro ...Show more
India After Gandhi: A History by Ramachandra Guha
Category: History
'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 ...Show more
India After Gandhi : The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha
Category: History
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 gl ...Show more
Makers of Modern Asia by Ramachandra Guha
Category: History
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. Make ...Show more
Rebels Against the Raj - Western Fighters for India's Freedom by Ramachandra Guha
Category: History
'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 ...Show more
The Commonwealth Of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair With The Most Subtle And Sophisticated Game Known To Humankind by Ramachandra Guha
Category: Sport
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 li ...Show more
The Commonwealth of Cricket by Ramachandra Guha
Category: Sport
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 l ...Show more
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