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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 .
Pandit Chhannulal Mishra (born 3 August 1936) is a celebrated Hindustani classical singer from Banaras, a noted exponent of the Kirana gharana (school) [1] [2] [3] of the Hindustani classical music and especially the Khayal and the 'Purab Ang' – Thumri.
General Bipin Chandra Joshi, PVSM, AVSM, ADC (5 December 1935 – 19 November 1994) was the 16th Chief of Army Staff (COAS) of the Indian Army.He is the only Chief of the Indian Army to die in office, and until the 2021 death of General Bipin Rawat in a helicopter crash, the only full general and serving Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee to have died in office.
Mridula Mukherjee (née Mahajan) is an Indian historian known for her work on the role of peasants in the Indian independence movement.She is an ex-chairperson of the Centre for Historical Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and former director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.
India's Struggle for Independence is a book written by historians Bipan Chandra, Mridula Mukherjee, Aditya Mukherjee, Sucheta Mahajan, and K. N. Panikkar, and published by Penguin Random House in 1987. [1] The book examines the Indian independence movement.
Other historians such as Satish Chandra, Romila Thapar, Bipan Chandra, Arjun Dev, and Dineshchandra Sircar, are sometimes referred to as "influenced by the Marxian approach to history." [52] One debate in Indian history that relates to a historical materialist schema is on the nature of feudalism in India. D. D.
Gopalakrishnan was born on June 11, 1932 into a family of musicians with a history spanning over two centuries. [2] His father, T.G. Viswanatha Bhagavathar, was a court musician for the Cochin Royal Family and a professor of music at the S.K.V. College in Thrissur. [3]
Bhabesh Chandra Sanyal - painter; Brijinder Nath Goswamy - art historian; Didi Contractor - architect; Harish Kapadia - mountaineer and writer; Helena Roerich - philosopher and explorer; Kirin Narayan - anthropologist; Manohar Singh Gill - administrator, politician, and writer; Mohan Singh Oberoi - hotelier; Mohinder Singh Randhawa - art ...