LEADER 04395cam a2200673 i 4500001 99130715795206421 005 20240725054000.0 008 240312s2024 ii c b 000 0aeng d 020 9789353457099 020 9353457092 020 9780008670146 |qhardcover 020 0008670145 |qhardcover 035 (OCoLC)on1425975029 040 WTU |beng |erda |cWTU |dOCLCO |dYDX 050 4 DS435.7.G83 |bA3 2024 082 04 907.202 |223 100 1 Guha, Ramachandra, |eauthor. 245 14 The cooking of books : |ba literary memoir / |cRamachandra Guha. 264 1 New Delhi, India : |bJuggernaut Books, |c2024. 264 4 |c©2024 300 xx, 243 pages : |b1 portrait ; |c21 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 Preface (why this book was written) -- Sportsman and scholar -- Finding one another -- Author and editor -- Exiting the OUP -- Writer and critic -- Patriot and sceptic -- The editor at home. 520 "It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious friendship which developed between the famously outspoken historian Ramachandra Guha and his reticent editor Rukun Advani is the subject of this ... literary memoir. It started in Delhi in the early 1980s, when Guha was an unpublished PhD scholar, and Advani a greenhorn editor with Oxford University Press. It blossomed through the 1990s, when Guha grew into a pioneering historian of the environment and of cricket, while also writing his pathbreaking biography of Verrier Elwin. Over these years Advani was Guha's most constant confidant, his most reliable reader. He encouraged him to craft and refine the literary style for which Guha became internationally known - narrative histories which have made vast areas of scholarship popular and accessible." 520 "Four decades later, though he no longer publishes his books, Advani remains Guha's most trusted literary adviser. Yet they also disagree ferociously on politics, human nature, and the shape of their commitment to India. They usually make up - because it just wouldn't do to allow such an odd relationship to die. Built around letters and emails between an outgoing and occasionally combative scholar and a reclusive editor prone to private outbursts of savage sarcasm, this book is never short of the kind of wit, humour, and drollery that has been strangled by contemporary political correctness"--From book jacket. 600 10 Guha, Ramachandra. 600 10 Advani, Rukun. 600 10 Guha, Ramachandra |xTechnique. 600 10 Advani, Rukun |xInfluence. 600 10 Guha, Ramachandra |vCorrespondence. 600 10 Advani, Rukun |vCorrespondence. 650 0 Authors, Indic |vBiography. 650 0 Historians |zIndia |vBiography. 650 0 Editors |zIndia |vBiography. 650 0 Authors and publishers |zIndia. 650 0 Authorship. 650 0 Editing. 650 6 Écrivains de l'Inde |0(CaQQLa)201-0191266 |vBiographies. |0(CaQQLa)201-0378258 650 6 Éditeurs |0(CaQQLa)201-0146880 |zInde |0(CaQQLa)201-0482676 |vBiographies. |0(CaQQLa)201-0378258 650 6 Écrivains et éditeurs |0(CaQQLa)201-0025465 |zInde. |0(CaQQLa)201-0482676 650 6 Art d'écrire. |0(CaQQLa)201-0079039 650 6 Édition. |0(CaQQLa)201-0003420 650 7 authorship. |2aat |0(CStmoGRI)aat300056110 655 7 autobiographies (literary works) |2aat |0(CStmoGRI)aatgf300080104 655 7 personal correspondence. |2aat |0(CStmoGRI)aatgf300048730 655 7 Autobiographies. |2lcgft 655 7 Biographies. |2lcgft 655 7 Personal correspondence. |2lcgft 655 7 Autobiographies. |2rvmgf |0(CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000520 655 7 Biographies. |2rvmgf |0(CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000519 655 7 Correspondance privée. |2rvmgf |0(CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001056 700 1 Advani, Rukun, |ecorrespondent. 910 |cG0601mon |d3110-67 |gYBPUK |h183064 914 (OCoLC)on1425975029 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20240717 |eprocessed |f1425975029 980 20423675 |f183064 |i30.87 |j27.78 |n60002533493 982 |cf |q32101118847498