TNPSC Thervupettagam

Elizabeth Longford Prize 2023

July 2 , 2023 512 days 1363 0
  • Historian and writer Ramchandra Guha’s book ‘Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom’ has won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2023.
  • Guha has been awarded £5,000 (5 lakhs approximately) and a bound copy of Elizabeth Longford’s memoir.
  • The books, Gandhi Before India (2013), Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World (2018) and India after Gandhi (2007), are written by him.
  • The American Historical Association (AHA) has conferred its Honorary Foreign Member prize for the year 2019 on Ramchandra Guha.
  • The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Bhushan award in 2009.

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