WRITER

Ramachandra Guha

1958 - Today

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Ramachandra "Ram" Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian, environmentalist, writer and public intellectual whose research interests include social, political, contemporary, environmental and cricket history. He is an important authority on the history of modern India.The American Historical Association (AHA) has conferred its Honorary Foreign Member prize for the year 2019 on Ramchandra Guha. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ramachandra Guha has received more than 1,171,120 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ramachandra Guha is the 7,073rd most popular writer (down from 6,304th in 2019), the 1,259th most popular biography from India (down from 1,022nd in 2019) and the 142nd most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ramachandra Guha ranks 7,073 out of 7,302Before him are Khosiyat Rustam, Léonora Miano, Allen Drury, Derrick Jensen, Mamunul Haque, and Maggie Stiefvater. After him are Judith Schalansky, Beau Willimon, Jim Cornette, Rainbow Rowell, Terézia Mora, and Nadia Ghulam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Ramachandra Guha ranks 755Before him are Ursula Burns, Yasuyuki Kishino, Nassar, Gabriele Löwe, Mahesh Manjrekar, and Dagmar Švubová. After him are Raúl Ormeño, Kevin Schon, Paul Gosar, Garry Cook, Anne Michaels, and Gcina Mhlophe.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ramachandra Guha ranks 1,259 out of 1,861Before him are Sangeeta Bijlani (1960), K. P. A. C. Lalitha (1947), Rahul Bose (1967), Shruti Haasan (1986), Akshay Venkatesh (1981), and Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (1970). After him are Sulakshana Pandit (1954), Supriya Pathak (1961), Dipak Misra (1953), Protima Bedi (1948), Sunita Narain (1961), and Ashutosh Rana (1967).

Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Ramachandra Guha ranks 142Before him are Rupi Kaur (1992), Ram Swarup (1920), Sarojini Sahoo (1956), Aravind Adiga (1974), Shashi Deshpande (1938), and Urvashi Butalia (1952). After him are Nirupama Rao (1950), Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956), Dinesh D'Souza (1961), Chetan Bhagat (1974), Meena Alexander (1951), and Anita Nair (1966).