![]() ![]() 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. from Delhi University in 1963.Ĭhandra taught for many years as lecturer and then as reader at Hindu College, Delhi. ![]() Back in Delhi in the early 1950s, Bipan Chandra was appointed lecturer in history at the Hindu College, Delhi. He established contact with Communists there, and, caught in the net cast under Senator McCarthy’s anti-Communist crusade, he was deported to India. Thereafter he went to the United States where he studied at the Stanford University, California, United States, to complete his graduation and post-graduation. ![]() He graduated from Forman Christian College, Lahore in 1946 after which the Partition forced him to leave. As used to be the case in old Punjab, his early education was in Urdu, he was best at home in his early years with an Urdu novel by his side. Early life and education Ĭhandra was born in Kangra in Punjab, British India (now in Himachal Pradesh). He authored several books, including The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism. 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. ![]() Padma Bhushan (2010), Royal Asiatic Society of Bihar plaqueīipan Chandra ( – 30 August 2014) was an Indian historian, specialising in economic and political history of modern India. ![]()
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