1. Bipan Chandra was an Indian Marxist historian, specialising in economic and political history of modern India.
14 Facts About Bipan Chandra
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Bipan Chandra authored several books, including The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism.
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Bipan Chandra graduated from Forman Christian College, Lahore in 1946 after which the Partition forced him to leave.
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Bipan Chandra established relationships with Communists in the United States; later, he was forced to leave the country as the anti-Communist crusade of Joseph McCarthy hit a fever pitch.
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Back in Delhi in the early 1950s, Bipan Chandra was appointed lecturer in history at Hindu College, Delhi.
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Bipan Chandra would go on to complete his PhD from Delhi University in 1959.
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Bipan Chandra taught for many years as lecturer and then as reader at Hindu College.
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Bipan Chandra moved to Jawaharlal Nehru University when it was established in 1969, and established the Centre for Historical Studies, alongside colleagues including Romila Thapar, Sarvepalli Gopal, and Satish Chandra.
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Bipan Chandra founded the journal Enquiry with his colleague Randhir Singh at Delhi University.
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Bipan Chandra was a sectional president and then the general president of the Indian History Congress at Amritsar in 1985.
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Bipan Chandra became a member of the University Grants Commission in 1993.
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Bipan Chandra was the chairman of the National Book Trust, New Delhi from 2004 to 2012.
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Bipan Chandra was at the forefront of the communist movement in India since Independence.
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Bipan Chandra's co-authored book, Freedom Struggle, was censored by the new central government that came to power in India in 1977.