Ramachandra "Ram" Guha[a] (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian, environmentalist, writer and public intellectual whose research interests include social, political, contemporary, environmental and cricket history.

The American Historical Association (AHA) has conferred its Honorary Foreign Member prize for the year 2019 on Ramchandra Guha.

Covering a wide range of subjects, Guha has produced three major books of modern India's socio-political history.

He was appointed to BCCI's panel of administrators by the Supreme Court of India in January 2017 but stepped down from his position citing personal reasons five months later.

[24][25] He was raised in Dehradun, where his father Subramaniam Ramdas Guha worked at the Forest Research Institute,[25][26] and his mother was a high-school teacher.

[34] He then enrolled at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, where he earned a Ph.D. in sociology, focusing on history and prehistory of the Chipko movement.

[35][36] Guha has authored books on a diverse range of subjects including cricket, the environment, politics, and history.

[citation needed] It was chosen Book of the Year by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal and Outlook Magazine.

[citation needed]He was appointed to BCCI's panel of administrators by the Supreme Court of India on 30 January 2017, as part of the Lodha Committee reforms, only to resign in July of the same year.

Their son, Keshava Guha, is a novelist, who announced the release of his first novel, Accidental Magic, at the 2019 Bangalore Literature Festival.

According to Guha, he was close to Venkataraman, who expected his nephew would also become a chemist; although he ultimately decided upon sociology, he credited his uncle as being one of the two people "from whom I learnt that to do something well, one had to do it thoroughly.

[59] He lists books, cricket, Hindustani classical music and the iconic eatery of Koshy's in Bangalore as his favorites.