Ramachandra Guha Age, Wife, Family, Biography & More

Bio
Real Name	Ramachandra Guha
Nickname	Not Known
Profession	Historian
Awards/Recognition	• In 2001, awarded Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society for Environmental History for his essay "Prehistory of Community Forestry in India." • In 2002, awarded the Daily Telegraph Cricket Society Book of the Year prize for "A Corner of a Foreign Field." • In 2003, won the R. K. Narayan Prize at the Chennai Book Fair. • In May 2008, listed one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world by the US magazine Foreign Policy. • In 2009, awarded Padma Bhushan by the Government of India. • In 2011, won Sahitya Akademi Award for India after Gandhi. • In 2015, won Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize.
Physical Stats & More
Height (approx.)	in centimeters- 178 cm in meters- 1.78 m in Feet Inches- 5’ 10”
Weight (approx.)	in Kilograms- 68 kg in Pounds- 150 lbs
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Salt & Pepper
Personal Life
Date of Birth	29 April 1958 (Tuesday)
Age (as of 2025)	67 Years
Birth Place	Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh (now in Uttarakhand)
Zodiac sign/Sun sign	Taurus
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Bengaluru, India
School	The Doon School, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
College/University	St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi Delhi School of Economics IIM Calcutta
Educational Qualifications	BA in Economics in 1977 from St. Stephens, University of Delhi Master's from the Delhi School of Economics A fellowship program (equivalent to a PhD) on the social history of forestry in Uttarakhand from IIM Calcutta
Family	Father- Subramaniam Ramdas Guha (Indian Forest Official) Mother- Name Not Known (High-school teacher) Brother- Not Known Sister- Not Known
Religion	Hinduism
Hobbies	Reading, Writing, Traveling
Favorite Things
Favorite Leader	Mahatma Gandhi
Favorite Sports	Cricket
Favorite Cricketer	Sachin Tendulkar
Favorite Food	Sticky rice with a curry of fresh Asian greens, Piping hot corn soup
Girls, Affairs and More
Marital Status	Married
Affairs/Girlfriends	Not Known
Wife	Sujata Keshavan (graphic designer)
Children	2
Money Factor
Salary	Not Known

Some Lesser Known Facts About Ramachandra Guha

Does Ramachandra Guha smoke:? Not Known

Does Ramachandra Guha drink alcohol:? Not Known

He was born to a Tamil family and brought up in Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh (Now Uttarkhand), India.

His mother was a high-school teacher and his father was a director at the Forest Research Institute.

Guha was an editor of The Doon School Weekly at the Doon School in Dehradun.

From 1985 to 2000, he taught at various Universities in India, North America and Europe including the Yale University, The University of California, Berkely, Oslo University and Stanford University.

In the mid-90s, he moved to Bangalore (now Bengaluru) and became a full-time writer.

He also served as the visiting professor at the Indian Insitute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru.

He is called a Serial Historian and has written extensively on various subjects like environment, cricket, post-Independence national history and tribes.

His first book- The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya, was published in 1989.

His most famous book is India After Gandhi for which he also got the Sahitya Akademi Award.

In an interview, he revealed that he became a non-vegetarian during his schools days at the Doon school in Dehra Dun. However, later he turned vegetarian.

His book on cricket in India- A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport, has also earned critical acclaims.

On 30 January 2017, the Supreme Court of India formed a panel headed by Vinod Rai to run BCCI including Ramachandra Guha, Diana Edulji (Former Indian Cricketer) and Vikram Limaye (IDFC Managing Director), a few weeks after the BCCI’s president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke were removed by the Supreme Court because of their inability to implement the Justice Lodha Panel recommendations.