Bipan Chandra was an Indian historian, specialising in economic and political history of modern India.
15 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 contact with Communists there, and, caught in the net cast under Senator McCarthy's anti-Communist crusade, he was deported to India.
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Back in Delhi in the early 1950s, Bipan Chandra was appointed lecturer in history at the Hindu College, Delhi.
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Bipan Chandra taught for many years as lecturer and then as reader at Hindu College, Delhi.
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Bipan Chandra 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.
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Bipan Chandra founded the journal Enquiry and was a member of its editorial board for a long time.
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Bipan Chandra was a sectional president and then the general president of the Indian History Congress in 1985.
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Bipan Chandra was chairperson of the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
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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.
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Bipan Chandra died on 30 August 2014, at his home in Gurgaon, after prolonged illness, aged 86.