‘How is India doing? A Historian’s Reckoning’ | Discussion with Dr. Ramachandra Guha at NLSIU

NLSIU will host an in-person interactive discussion with historian and author Dr. Ramachandra Guha on Wednesday, 24th April, at 4 pm. The focus of this conversation will be – “How is India doing? A Historian’s Reckoning”. This session will be moderated by NLS faculty Dr. Rinku Lamba.

This session is being organized by the Student Initiative for Promotion of Legal Awareness (SIPLA), a student committee at NLSIU. It will be an open-forum interactive session, allowing for an extended Q&A with students.

About the speaker

Dr. Ramachandra Guha is a historian, biographer, political commentator, environmental activist, and cricket aficionado, among many other things. Some of his bestselling works include – “India after Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy” (Picador, 2007), a popular tome on the history of India since independence, and “Gandhi Before India” (2013), which focuses on Gandhi’s years in South Africa.

Dr. Guha earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, a master’s degree from the Delhi School of Economics, and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the Indian Institute of Management at Kolkata, where he wrote a doctoral thesis on the history and prehistory of the Chipko movement.

His other notable works include “Patriots and Partisans”, a collection of essays on the politics of our time; “The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya” (Oxford University Press, 1989), a pioneering work in environmental history; “A Corner of a Foreign Field” (Picador 2003), an award-winning social history of cricket. His most recent book is a memoir titled “The Cooking of Books”, chronicling the four decades-long relationship between him and Rukun Advani, his first editor.

The registration form for all those who would like to attend this session is available here.