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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 November 2014.

Contents • • • • • • • • • Early life and education [ ] Chandra was born in in (now in ). He was educated at,,, United States and the, where he completed his Ph.D. Under the supervision of Professor Bishweshwar Prasad.

Career [ ] Chandra taught for many years as and then as at. He became of History at,, 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. Chandra was a sectional president and then the general president of the in 1985.

He was chairperson of the Centre for Historical Studies,, New Delhi. He became a member of the in 1993. He was the of the, 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, was censored by the new central government that came to power in India in 1977.

He collaborated with historians such,,,,,,, Arjun Dev and his students and Aditya Mukherjee, some of whose text books have been prescribed in the history syllabuses of Indian schools for a long time. Controversy [ ] In April 2016, right-wing activist sought a ban on Chandra's bestselling India's Struggle for Independence because of a misunderstanding of the terminology used in it. Death [ ] Chandra died on the morning of 30 August 2014, at his home in Gurgaon, after prolonged illness, aged 86. Legacy [ ] organised a commemorative event on his birth anniversary. 14 August 2013. Archived from (PDF) on 15 November 2014. • Ravi Bhushan (1992).

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