Ramachandra Guha
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Ramachandra "Ram" Guha is an Indian historian, environmentalist, writer and public intellectual whose research interests include social, political, contemporary, environmental and cricket history, and the field of economics. He is an important authority on the history of modern India.
Guha in 2024 during a lecture at National Law School of India
Image: Ramchandra Guha Signature
Guha delivering a talk at The Doon School's Kilachand Library in 2017.
Guha at his book Makers of Modern India's event
Environmental history
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Environmental history is the study of human interaction with the natural world over time, emphasising the active role nature plays in influencing human affairs and vice versa.
The city of Machu Picchu was constructed c. 1450 AD, at the height of the Inca Empire. It has commanding views down two valleys and a nearly impassable mountain at its back. There is an ample supply of spring water and enough land for a plentiful food supply. The hillsides leading to it have been terraced to provide farmland for crops, reduce soil erosion, protect against landslides, and create steep slopes to discourage potential invaders.
General view of Funkville in 1864, Oil Creek, Pennsylvania, US
Nature preservationist John Muir with U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (left) on Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park
Frontier historian Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932)