Ramachandra Guha’s ‘India After Gandhi’ – Gujarati translation launched in Ahmedabad

NB: India After Gandhi is a history of India after independence, but it must be said that Ramchandra Guha is among a small circle of scholars to have done singular service to the Indian and global public with his extensive and meticulous research on Mahatma Gandhi’s life. It is gratifying that his work has been translated into so many Indian languages. It has been a labour of love. Thanks, and salaam. Dilip

Sohini Chattopadhyay

“This is the eighth Indian language this book has been translated into, and this one is the best,” said Ramachandra Guha at the launch of Gandhi Pachhinu Bharat by Sarthak Prakashan, the Gujarati translation of his magisterial work India After Gandhi.

The translators are Urvish Kothari, well known on X over the past half decade for his satirical videos in Hindi, and a Gujarati journalist-columnist for 30 years, and the late Dilip Gohil, who worked as a copy editor with the Gujarati edition of India Today.

Guha has a limited acquaintance with Gujarati (he understands it if spoken slowly, he said). But he articulated two reasons why the Gujarati translation was special for him: M.K. Gandhi, of whom he is possibly the best-known biographer, wrote in the Gujarati language. And second, he met his wife (the influential designer Sujatha Keshavan) in Ahmedabad forty-something years ago.

I submit another reason for Guha’s love for the Gujarati translation without being able to read or write in the language: I have not seen a Guha book event punctuated with as many laughs as I heard on the evening of May 18 at the packed auditorium of the Ahmedabad Management Association complex (one of architect Bimal Patel’s early works)….

https://thewire.in/books/ramachandra-guha-india-after-gandhi-gujarati-launch

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