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How to read india s struggle for independence by bipan chandra
Bipan Chandra (27 May 1928 – 30 August 2014) was an Indian historian, specialising in economic and political history of modern India. An emeritus professor of modern history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, he specialized on the Indian independence movement and is considered a leading scholar on Mahatma Gandhi. He authored several books, including The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism.
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- How to read india s struggle for independence by bipan chandra
- Pehli khabar eminent historian bipan chandra passes away his life and work
- Early life and education
- Career
- Research
- Death
- Legacy
- Publications
- References
Pehli khabar eminent historian bipan chandra passes away his life and work
Early life and education
Chandra was born in Kangra in Punjab, British India (now in Himachal Pradesh). He was educated at Forman Christian College, Lahore, Stanford University, United States and the University of Delhi, where he completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Bishweshwar Prasad.
Career
Chandra taught for many years as lecturer and then as reader at Hindu College, Delhi. He became professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, soon after the university was founded and after retirement was appointed as an emeritus professor there. He founded the journal Enquiry and was a member of its editorial board for a long time. He was chairperson of the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He became a member of the University Grants Commission in 1993. He was the chairman of the National Book Trust, New Delhi from 2004 to 2012. As Chairman of National Book Trust, India, he brought in a new vigour, and started many new series such as Popular Social Science, Autobiography, Afro-Asian Countries series, Indian Diaspora Studies etc.
In his retirement years he was appointed as a national research professor in 2007.
Research
Chandra was at the forefront of the communist movement in India since independence. His books, such as Freedom Struggle, which was co-authored by Amalesh Tripathi and Barun De, was censored by the new central government that came to power in India in 1977. He collaborated with historians such Nurul Hasan, Ram Sharan Sharma, Sarvapalli Gopal, Satish Chandra, Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib, Barun De, Arjun Dev and his students Mridula Mukherjee and Aditya Mukherjee, some of whose text books have been prescribed in the history syllabuses of Indian schools for a long time.
Death
Chandra died on the morning of 30 August 2014, at his home in Gurgaon, after prolonged illness, aged 86.
Legacy
JNU organised a commemorative event on his birth anniversary.
In April, 2016, a ban was sought on Chandra's bestselling India's Struggle for Independence for the secular Marxist-Nationalist views expressed in it.