Ramachandra Guha is a historian based in Bengaluru. His books include India After Gandhi, A Corner of a Foreign Field, Environmentalism: A Global History, and Gandhi Before India. He tweets as @Ram_Guha
Articles by Ramachandra Guha
History Matters
The Kashmiris have been denied autonomy and dignity; the adivasis of interior Chhattisgarh victimised and brutalised, writes Ramachandra Guha.
Updated on May 26, 2008 11:16 PM IST
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Centring the peripheral
Arunachal Pradesh has many things going for it, thanks to the visionary Verrier Elwin, writes Ramachnadra Guha.
Updated on Apr 29, 2008 10:36 PM IST
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A severe bend in the river
Does the greatly esteemed and cherished Nobel Prize provide the kiss of death for writers, VS Naipaul in particular? Ramachandra Guha examines.
Updated on Feb 26, 2008 11:51 PM IST
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His faith, our faith
The distinctiveness of Gandhi’s faith was that it simultaneously rejected the atheism of the intellectuals as well as the proselytising of the missionaries, writes Ramachandra Guha.
Updated on Jan 29, 2008 11:14 PM IST
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Country cousins
India needs to take its friendship with the United States forward without succumbing to subservience, writes Ramachandra Guha.
Updated on Jan 01, 2008 12:36 AM IST
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Cracking the code
A uniform civil code is everybody’s pipe dream — or pipe nightmare, writes Ramachandra Guha.
Updated on Dec 13, 2007 10:15 PM IST
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A compromise formula
This week in 1932, Gandhi approved of reserved seats for Dalits within a joint electorate, which is still a part of electoral process, writes Ramachandra Guha.
Updated on Sep 23, 2007 11:33 PM IST
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Our violent streak
Subhas Bose, Savarkar & Bhagat Singh are still adored for their call to shed blood for the nation, writes Ramachandra Guha.
Updated on Sep 05, 2007 11:26 PM IST
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The shock absorbers
That we can criticise Gandhi & Nehru, unlike our other icons, underlines their greatness, writes Ramachandra Guha.
Updated on Jul 25, 2007 05:25 AM IST
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Two cheers for blasphemy
It is past time that the Government of India recovered its lost secularist soul, past time that it stood squarely against fundamentalists whether these be Hindu or Muslim, Christian or Sikh, writes Ramachandra Guha.
Updated on Jun 29, 2007 12:52 AM IST
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People vs people
In the history of Independent India, the most bloody conflicts have taken place in the most beautiful of locations.
Published on Jun 05, 2006 04:55 AM IST
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