[Reader-list] [Announcements] INTACH HERITAGE LECTURE

[vani subramanian]

INDIAN NATIONAL TRUST FOR ART AND CULTURAL HERITAGE (INTACH)

invites you to 

a talk on

‘India’s Cricket Heritage’

by

Ramchandra Guha

on

Thursday, April 7, 2005 at 6:30 pm

at the INTACH Multi-Purpose Hall,

71 Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003

Please join us for tea at 6.00 p.m.                                                                                                                                              RSVP

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RAMCHANDRA GUHA
A historian, biographer, and cricket writer, Ramachandra Guha studied at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and took his doctorate at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Between 1985 and 1995 he held academic jobs in India, Europe, and North America. Since 1995 he has been a full-time writer, based in Bangalore. In 1997 and 1998 he was Indo-American Community Chair Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He has also taught at the universities of Yale, Stanford and Oslo, been a Senior Associate Member of St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, a Senior Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in New Delhi, and a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

            He has written several books, the first of which was The Unquiet Woods, jointly published by Oxford University Press and the University of California Press in 1989. In 1999 the OUP and the University of Chicago Press published Guha’s Savaging the Civilized: Verrier Elwin, His Tribals and India and in 2000 Permanent Black published a collection of biographical portraits by Ramachandra Guha, An Anthropologist among the Marxists and Other Essays. Among Ramachandra Guha’s other books are Environmentalism: A Global History (Addison Wesley Longman, 2000), and two books on Indian ecological conflicts co-authored with Madhav Gadgil: This Fissured Land (1992) and Ecology and Equity (1995), these now issued in a joint omnibus edition by the OUP. He has published scholarly essays in Past and Present, the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Development and Change, and Economic and Political Weekly. His essay ‘Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation’
 (first published in Environmental Ethics in 1989) has been reprinted in more than a dozen anthologies. Another essay, ‘Prehistory of Community Forestry in India’, was awarded the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society for Environmental History for 2001. 

He is the author of two other books Wickets in the East (OUP, 1992) and the editor of The Picador Book of Cricket. Ramachandra Guha’s most recent book is a social history of Indian cricket, entitled A Corner of a Foreign Field. Published by Picador in the summer of 2001. He is currently working on a major history of independent India, also to be published by Picador. 

            


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