Bipan Chandra is a famous Indian author, historian and professor. He is considered one of the outstanding Indian historians. He is known for his famous book India’s Independence Struggle. His specialty is Modern Indian History. His first work was The Rise and Growth of Indian Economic Nationalism: The Economic Policies of the Indian State Leadership, 1880-1905, published in 1966. The last book published by Bipan Chandra was The Making of Modern India: From Marx to Gandhi, the Black Swan of the East, published in 2000.
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Bipan Chandra was born on Saturday, May 24, 1928 (he was 86 years old at the time of his death) in Kangra, Punjab, British India (now in Himachal Pradesh, India). His star sign is Gemini. Bipan Chandra is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at Jawaharlal Nehru University and an Indian author, teacher and renowned historian. During the Indian Independence Movement, Chandra was an active participant in the movement. He was a great scholar and writer and wrote many books on Mahatma Gandhi. Bipan Chandra graduated from Forman Christian College, Lahore in 1946. After that, he obtained a Masters degree in History from Stanford University, California, USA in 1949. He obtained a PhD from Delhi University in 1963.
appearance
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Black
Family and caste
Bipan Chandra was born into a Sud family.
Wife and children
Bipan Chandra’s wife’s name is Usha Chandra and they have two children.
Profession
Lecturer/Professor
After Senator McCarthy launched a campaign to deport Bipan Chandra back to India for his alleged links with American Marxists, Chandra returned to India in the 1950s and began working as a lecturer at the Delhi Hindu College. During this time, he also pursued a doctorate at the University of Delhi. His doctoral dissertation, titled “The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India,” re-established the efforts of earlier patriots, including Dadabhai Naoroji, RC Dutt, and GV Joshi, who had initiated India’s anti-colonial struggle.
Bipan Chandra’s book The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India
Mr. Chandra started working as a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University in the 1970s and was awarded the title of “Professor Emeritus” upon his retirement in 2007. In 1985, the Indian History Congress in Amritsar, Punjab, appointed Professor Bipan Chandra as its General President. In 1970, Bipan Chandra was awarded the title of National Professor by the University Grants Commission. The National Book Trust of India appointed him as its Chairman, a position he held from 2004 to 2012.
Bipan Chandra, Chairman, National Book Trust, 2008
Contribution to modern Indian history
Bipan Chandra founded the journal Inquiry in the early 1950s and served on its editorial board for a long time. Chandra taught history at Delhi University for 43 years. The book Sectarianism in Modern India (1984) is an analytical work on sectarianism compiled by Chandra. Bipan Chandra wrote a monograph In the Name of Democracy: JP Movement and Emergency (2003) in which he relates past events of Indian history to the present situation of modern India. In this monograph, he expressed nervousness about the imposition of Emergency by Indira Gandhi between 1975 and 1977. The same monograph also pointed out that Jayaprakash Narayan’s pro-sectarian movement violated many principles of the Indian Constitution.
In the Name of Democracy, a book written by Bipan Chandra
NCERT curriculum, especially the Modern Indian History textbooks for senior secondary schools, were written by Bipan Chandra. Many books for entrance examinations to government jobs and competitive examinations including UPSC were written by Bipan Chandra.
Modern Indian History, a book written by Bipan Chandra for UPSC exam
Bipan Chandra wrote a book called The Long-Term Dynamics of the Indian National Movement, in which he states:
The Indian national movement led by the Indian National Congress is a people’s liberation struggle that has provided the world with many lessons in terms of social change and national structural change, just like the British, French, Russian, Chinese, Cuban and Vietnamese revolutions. [has] It has a certain significance in world history. It is “the only real historical case in which a semi-democratic or democratic state structure has been replaced or transformed, and the only real historical case in which the broad Gramsci theoretical perspective of positional warfare has been successfully put into practice. The famous Italian Marxist Gramsci commented that this is ‘the only possible strategy for social transformation in developed Western countries’.”
Sectarianism in Modern India is one of the famous works of Bipan Chandra. He wrote Sectarianism in Modern India which is a standard text for those who want to know and understand how sectarianism developed and spread in the early second half of the 19th century. This is mainly for readers who want to fight against sectarianism in India.
Communism in Modern India, Revised Edition by Bipan Chandra
Contribution to Indian economic history
Bipan Chandra is the main founder of economic history. In one of his works on economic history, he points out:
Colonialism did not lead to “partial modernization” or “limited growth,” and any small amount of growth experienced by the colonies during the colonial period was not result The essence of globalization is not a product of colonialism, but a product of the breaking of colonial ties or “loosening of ties” caused by various crises faced by colonial powers, such as the two world wars and the Great Depression.
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