Ramachandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha is the author of India After Gandhi (Ecco, 2007) and Makers of Modern India (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011).


Essays

Security

The Dalai Lama's War

| 08.24.11

Nearly fifty years ago, India and China met in a brief, bloody border clash that would come to define—and destroy—the legendary Nehru. Was this the first step in an inevitable clash between two rising civilizations?

Society

All Gandhi's Children

| 12.16.10

With the most diverse society in the world, India can serve as a model to the West in its struggles to reconcile liberal democracy with Islam.

Society

Two Indias

| 06.23.09

In its recent election, New Delhi avoided the perils of identity politics. But the center governs neither wisely nor well.

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May 25, 2012