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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.
Bipin Chandra Pal put forward the idea of composite patriotism in colonial India in 1906, promulgating the idea that "Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and other religious minorities (including the 'animistic' tribals) should preserve their distinctive religious cultures while fighting together for freedom."
Tilak opposed the moderate views of Gopal Krishna Gokhale, and was supported by fellow Indian nationalists Bipin Chandra Pal in Bengal and Lala Lajpat Rai in Punjab. They were referred to as the "Lal-Bal-Pal triumvirate". In 1907, the annual session of the Congress Party was held at Surat, Gujarat. Trouble broke out over the selection of the ...
"Lal-Bal-Pal" is the phrase that is used to refer to the three nationalist leaders Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal who held sway over the Indian Nationalist movement and the independence struggle in the early parts of twentieth century. Lala Lajpat Rai belonged to the northern province of Punjab.
Manmohan Singh, India’s 13th Prime Minister and a pivotal figure in the country’s economic transformation, died in a New Delhi hospital on Dec. 26 of age-related medical conditions. He was 92.
Intelligence reports indicate that along with Bipin Chandra Pal, he was at this time associated with the India House. [5] Later, Khaparde was a founding member of Tilak's Indian Home Rule League in 1916, [2] and was a member of the Congress's deputation to the Viceroy on constitutional reforms, with Vasukaka Joshi.
Makers of Modern India is a non-fiction book written by Indian historian-scholar Ramachandra Guha and published by Penguin India in 2010. The book features profiles of selected personalities that laid the foundation of modern India: Ram Mohan Roy, Syed Ahmad Khan, Khuda Bakhsh, Jotirao Phule, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Tarabai Shinde, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, B. R ...