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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]
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 ...
The movement lasted around two years between 1916–1918 and is believed to have set the stage for the Indian independence movement under the leadership of Annie Besant and Bal Gangadhar Tilak to the educated English speaking upper class Indians. [1] In 1920, All India Home Rule League changed its name to Swarajya Sabha. [2]
The plan was put into action at 22:00 on 18 April 1930. The police armoury was captured by a group of revolutionaries led by Ganesh Ghosh, while another group of ten men led by Lokenath Bal took the Auxiliary Forces armoury.
Instead, they began adopting aggressive measures like Swadeshi and Boycott and openly accused British for the 'economic crisis of India' and for gaining freedom from the British rule in India. They played a key role in the independence of India (modern day India, Myanmar, Pakistan and Bangladesh) Use of the name "Moderates" Came to an end in 1907.