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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 .
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.
Lala Lajpat Rai of Punjab, Bal Gangadhar Tilak of Bombay, and Bipin Chandra Pal of Bengal, the triumvirate were popularly known as Lal Bal Pal, changed the political discourse of the Indian independence movement. The Indian textile industry also played an important role in the freedom struggle of India.
This is encapsulated by the two books co-written with Bipan Chandra et al: India's Struggle for Independence and India after independence: 1947-2000. In the former book, the authors sought to "demolish the influence of the Cambridge and Subaltern 'schools' reflected in the writing on colonialism and nationalism in India". [11]
[4] [5] This organization again led the historical 36-days hunger strike in 1937 where the British government had to bow before the demands of the political prisoners. [6] They used slogans like "Inquilab Zindabad" and "Duniya ke Mazdooron ek ho". [7] [8] Gradually The organization's membership expanded rapidly to more than 800 inmates.
His name also appears in Bipan Chandra's masterpiece India's Struggle for Independence. There is a college near Muzaffarpur named after Yamuna Karjee. Family : Pandit Yamuna Karjee had four sons Mahesh Karjee, Umesh Karjee, Dr. Akhilesh Karjee, Rajesh Karjee and three daughters. His grandson Devesh Kumar is the Vice President of Bharatiya ...
It was based on the book Do and Die: The Chittagong Uprising 1930-34 by Manini Chatterjee. [11] Another film, Chittagong was made in 2010 and released in October 2012. It was directed by Dr. Bedabrata Pain, a former scientist in NASA who resigned from NASA to make this film. Manoj Bajpai was the lead actor and played the role of Surya Sen. [11]
Gandhiji dominated the Indian freedom struggle from 1919 to 1948. That is why this period is known as the Gandhian era in Indian history. During this time, Mahatma Gandhi dominated the Indian National Congress, which in turn was at the forefront of the Indian freedom struggle. Gandhi joined in 1915 and left the Indian National Congress in 1923.