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- Bipan Chandra, however, was never lacking in courage. His own views on the national movement underwent a change in the course of time. He had the courage to revise his views and admit his own earlier errors, as he saw them, without flinching.
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Sep 17, 2014 · BIPAN CHANDRA, Emeritus Professor of the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, who passed away on August 30, was an outstanding historian, a major figure in the...
Bipan Chandra (24 May 1928 – 30 August 2014) [2] 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 leading scholar on Mahatma Gandhi.
Sep 4, 2014 · In the passing away of professor Bipan Chandra on 30 August 2014 the nation has lost one of its finest historians. He was an activist scholar who was not satisfied with contributing only to rarefied academic circles but wrote popular books, which sold in the millions in English and several Indian languages.
Sep 9, 2014 · Two kinds of criticism have usually been raised against Bipan’s intellectual position. First, he did not explore the dialectics between the anti-colonial struggle and the social emancipation struggle led by Phule, Periyar, Shri Narayana Guru, Ambedkar and others, implicitly privileging the former.
Aug 30, 2014 · It is a measure of Bipan Chandra’s achievement as a historian that he defined the mainstream establishment’s self understanding of Modern India for a very long time. Other historians have been more scholarly or more conceptually innovative.
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His indomitable courage was matched by enormous energy that had gone in the way he infused any institution that he worked for: JNU and the National Book trust. His goal of seeing India develop...
age. Bipan Chandra, however, was never lacking in courage. His own views on the national movement underwent a change in the course of time. He had the courage to revise his views and admit his own earlier errors, as he saw them, without flinching. While he was closer, despite differences, to the traditional Left position of seeing the Congress
