Grasp An Anthropologist Among The Marxists And Other Essays Compiled By Ramachandra Guha Format PDF
collection of essays that I have read so far, The essays are extremely well researched and presented in a nonpartisan impartial vein, The book is divided inbroad sections, each containing several essays by Guha,
The first part 'Comrades and Companions' discusses intellectuals ad civil servants of high repute and fine calibre and their ideological/socialistic/marxist/naxal leanings,
The second part 'use and Abuse of Gandhi' examines Gandhis teachings, his life, views as on Ambedkar, the British, etc, and the miscarriage of his ideas as in case of Vinoba Bhave,
The third part 'Internationalist' studies the lives of E, P Thompson, Nirad Chaudhuri and those who came to India from abroad Miraben, Verrier Elwin, Spratt amp Haldane,
The fourth 'Patriots' examines the Bharat Ratna awardees, the life and times of Nehru, Indira , EMS Namboodiripad and India's illogical fascination with N bombs,
The fifth 'Players' is a brilliant account of the Greats of Indian Cricket starting from CK Nayudu to Bishen Bedi to Vijay Hazare to Gavaskar and Sachin in addition to a study on socialism and soccer.
This is a work of high standard and anyone interested in a serious study/reflection on the history of India must read this rich collection, Awesome, but boring Brilliant collection of essays on national Indian and international personalities as well as insightful chapters on many locally important fieldchangers of Indian history, This is a book I should have read a long time back! And Guha is clearly one of the most readable historians of our time, Recommended to anyone with an interest in Indian history and society, Great Book read most of the articles, good thing is mostly opinion is interspersed with personal experience of the author with the person about whom he is writing.
The essay on Khushwant singh is so wonderful, The section "Use and abuse of Gandhi" is a must read, The collection of essays regarding the historical Indian intellectuals who weren't from the mainstream mass of Gandhian, Nehruvian and the globalized times, In such a way, it is indeed a wonderful portrayal of various Marxists, MarxistCommunist, Naxalites, GandhianMarxists, Socialists, and some pseudoIdeologists as well, Getting to know about the author's academic life at Delhi and Calcutta is something worth knowing on a personal basis for me, I definitely didn't prefer the essays of the author on Cricket and Players which are filled with too many tiny details but a cricket fanatic like the author himself would find it worth knowing but not for me.
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ofessays, It went out of print right after the first edition in, Glad I found it in my University Library, 'Inside every thinking there is a Gandhian and a Marxist struggling for supremacy', says Ramachandra Guha in the opening sentence of this wonderfully readable book of ideas, opinions and reflections.
A substantial portion of the book expands on this salvo: it analyses Gandhians and psuedoGandhians, Marxists and antiMarxists, Nehruvians and antisecularists, democrats and Stalinists, scientists and historians, environmentalists and cricketers in short all those who comprise the intellectual life of thinking Indians today.
Ramachandra Guha was born in Dehradun in, and educated in Delhi and Calcutta, He has taught at the University of Oslo, Stanford, and Yale, and at the Indian Institute of Science, He has been a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and also served as the Indo American Community Chair Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
After a peripatetic academic career, with five jobs in ten years on three continents, Guha settled down to become a full time writer based in Bangalore, His books cover a wide range of themes, including a global history of environmentalism, a biography of an anthropologist activist, a social history of Indian cricket, and a social history of Himalayan peasants.
Guhas books and essays hav Ramachandra Guha was born in Dehradun in, and educated in Delhi and Calcutta, He has taught at the University of Oslo, Stanford, and Yale, and at the Indian Institute of Science, He has been a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and also served as the Indo American Community Chair Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
After a peripatetic academic career, with five jobs in ten years on three continents, Guha settled down to become a full time writer based in Bangalore, His books cover a wide range of themes, including a global history of environmentalism, a biography of an anthropologist activist, a social history of Indian cricket, and a social history of Himalayan peasants.
Guhas books and essays have been translated into than twenty languages, The prizes they have won include the U, K. Cricket Societys Literary Award and the Leopold Hidy Prize of the American Society of Environmental History, sitelink.