An Anthropologist among the Marxists and other Essays
Ramachandra Guha
Price
595
ISBN
9788178240015
Language
English
Pages
278
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
2001
Territorial Rights
World
Imprint
Permanent Black

“Inside every thinking Indian 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 pseudo-Gandhians, Marxists and anti-Marxists, Nehruvians and anti-Secularists, Democrats and Stalinists, scientists and historians, environmentalists and cricketers in short, it examines and discusses all those who comprise the intellectual life of thinking Indians today.

Ramachandra Guha, historian, biographer, cricket-writer and columnist, he is probably India’s best-known writer of non-fiction.