Ramachandra Guha: Distinguished Speaker on March 16th

The Yadunandan Center for India Studies and College of  Liberal Arts are pleased to announce that Ramachandra Guha, generally considered one of India’s leading intellectuals, will give the Ninth Annual Uka and Nalini Solanki Lecture on Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Residing in Bangalore, Guha has an extraordinary range of writings, and has published  seminal works on the history of cricket, and the environmental and modern political history of the subcontinent.  He is an eloquent and engaging speaker. Admission is free, and students and whole classes are invited. Beginning at 6 p.m., there is a reception with Indian food prior to Guha’s lecture. Please send a brief email RSVP if you are planning to attend. We look forward to seeing you in March.


The Ninth Annual Uka and Nalini Solanki Foundation Lecture
“The Rise & Fall of the Indian Liberal Tradition”

Ramachandra Guha
Distinguished Guest Speaker

Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Karl Anatol Center
California State University, Long Beach

Reception begins at 6:00 PM Lecture and Q&A from 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Ramachandra Guha is a historian and biographer based in Bangalore. He has previously taught at the universities of Yale and Stanford, held the Arné Naess Chair at the University of Oslo, and been the Indo-American Community Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley. His books include a pioneering environmental history, The Unquiet Woods (University of California Press), an award-winning social history of cricket, A Corner of a Foreign Field (Picador), and India after Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy (HarperCollins).  Published in 2007, India after Gandhi won the Ramnath Goenka Award for the best work of non-fiction published in India, and The Economist, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Outlook chose it as a Book of the Year.
Ramachandra Guha’s books and essays have been translated into more than twenty languages. The New York Times has referred to him as ‘perhaps the best among India’s non fiction writers.’ In 2009, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the Republic of India’s third highest civilian honor, and both India Today and BusinessWeek chose him as one of the fifty most influential people in India. He is now working on a book on Mohandas Gandhi and South Africa.

Ramachandra Guha will give the Ninth Annual Solanki Lecture at CSULB on Wednesday, March 16, 2011. For more details, please contact Professor Tim Keirn at (562) 985-4428 or by email at timkeirn@csulb.edu or Dr. Arnold Kaminsky at (562) 985-5279 or akamin@csulb.edu.