Patriots and Partisans

DETAILS : 

• Author : Ramachandra Guha
  
• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd.
  
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ 1 October 2013
  
• Edition ‏ : ‎ Latest Edition
  
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
  
• Print length ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 014342114X 
  
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780143421146
  
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 550 g

ABOUT THE BOOK

Patriots and Partisans is a critically acclaimed collection of essays by Ramachandra Guha, one of India’s most prominent historians and public intellectuals. Published in 2012, the book serves as a diagnostic look at the health of Indian democracy.

Guha explores the vast middle ground between two extremes: the uncritical "Patriot" who loves their country while acknowledging its flaws, and the "Partisan" who is blinded by singular ideologies, whether they be religious, political, or linguistic. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Born and raised in Dehradun, Ramachandra Guha studied at the
Delhi School of Economics and at the Indian Institute of Management,
Kolkata, where he wrote a doctoral dissertation on the Chipko
movement. He has pioneered three distinct fields of historical inquiry:
environmental history (as in The Unquiet Woods, 1989), the social
history of sport (A Corner of a Foreign Field, 2002), and contemporary
history (India After Gandhi, 2007). He is also the author of Savaging
the Civilized: Verrier Elwin, His Tribals, and India (1999), which is
soon to appear in a new edition from Penguin.
He is now working on a major biography of Mahatma Gandhi, the first
volume of which will be published by Penguin towards the end of 2013.
Guha's awards include the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society
for Environmental History, the UK Cricket Society Prize, the Malcolm
Adiseshiah Prize for excellence in social science research, the Sahitya
Akademi Award, and the Padma Bhushan. His books and essays have
been translated into more than twenty languages.