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Aarti Susan
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‘Ramchandra Guha’s Gandhi Before India
Reading followed by the New Yorker’s Jonathan Shainin in Conversation with Ramchandra Guha |
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New York, April 10, 2014 - The Indo-American Art’s Council presents the book launch of Ramchandra Guha's magnificent monograph - Gandhi Before India. The event will take place on April 17th from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York. The book reading will be followed by a Q&A and a meet & greet with the author as well as Jonathan Shainin from The New Yorker. Hors d’oeuvres and wine will be served during the meet & greet; books will be available for sale and signing as well.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Gandhi Before India demonstrates how complicated cross-cultural relations were in the 19th century. As one of the most influential Indian historians, Ramchandra Guha takes us from Gandhi's birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, his two years as a student in London, and his two decades as a lawyer and community organizer in South Africa.
His meticulously researched writing and ability to uncover countless, previously untapped documents (including private papers of Gandhi's co-workers, contemporary newspapers and court documents, the writings of Gandhi's children, secret files kept by British Empire functionaries) – come together to make his work, a masterpiece.
Using his wealth of material in a brilliantly nuanced narrative, Guha describes the social, political, and personal worlds in which Gandhi began his journey to become the modern era's most important and influential political actor.
The book launch is free and open to the public. Please rsvp: events.iaac@gmail.com.
Gandhi Before India: $35.
About Ramchandra Guha:
Ramachandra Guha has previously taught at Yale and Stanford universities, the University of Oslo, the Indian Institute of Science, and the London School of Economics. His books include a pioneering environmental history, an award-winning social history of cricket, and the award-winning India After Gandhi.He writes regularly on social and political issues for the British and Indian press, including columns in The Telegraph and the Hindustan Times, and also for The New York Times.
About the Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC):
The Indo-American Arts Council is a registered 501(c) 3 not-for-profit, secular service and resource arts organization charged with the mission of promoting and building the awareness, creation, production, exhibition, publication and performance of Indian and cross-cultural art forms in North America. The IAAC supports all artistic disciplines in the classical, fusion, folk and innovative forms influenced by the arts of India. We work cooperatively with colleagues around the United States to broaden our collective audiences and to create a network for shared information, resources and funding. Our focus is to work with artists and arts organizations in North America as well as to facilitate artists and arts organizations from India to exhibit, perform and produce their works here.
For more information on the Indo-American Arts Council and affiliated events, please visit
About The National Arts Club:
The National Arts Club was founded in 1898 to stimulate, foster and promote public interest in the arts. The Club is located in the landmarked Tilden Mansion at 15 Gramercy Park South in New York City. The Club’s Membership has included three former Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and Dwight D. Eisenhower – and some of the most important artists and arts patrons in America. For more information on The National Arts Club, please visit: http://www.nationalartsclub.org
About Random House LLC:
The publisher is Alfred A. Knopf. Alfred A. Knopf is a division of Random House LLC, Penguin Random House company based in the U.S. Penguin Random House (http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/) is the world’s first truly global trade book publisher. It was formed on July 1, 2013, upon the completion of an agreement between Bertelsmann and Pearson to merge their respective trade publishing companies, Random House and Penguin, with the parent companies owning 53% and 47%, respectively. Penguin Random House comprises the adult and children’s fiction and nonfiction print and digital trade book publishing businesses of Penguin and Random House in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and India, Penguin’s trade publishing activity in Asia and South Africa; DK Worldwide; and Random House’s companies in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, and Chile. Penguin Random House employs more than 10,000 people globally across almost 250 editorially and creatively independent imprints and publishing houses that collectively publish more than 15,000 new titles annually. Its publishing lists include more than 70 Nobel Prize laureates and hundreds of the world’s most widely read authors. |
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