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Bipan Chandra (born 1928) is an Indian historian, specialising in economic and political history of modern India.
Presently, he is the Chairman of the National Book Trust, New Delhi He was a member of the University Grants Commission, New Delhi. He was also a Chairperson of CHS, JNU.
Chandra was born in Kangra Valley, Himachal Pradesh. His original surname is Sud, but he decided to exclude it from his said name, in order to uphold his ideologies based on egalitarianism. Incidentally, Chandra married into a prominent Sud family.
He was educated at Forman Christian College, Lahore, Stanford University, USA and the University of Delhi, where he completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Bishweshwar Prasad.
He taught for many years as Lecturer at Hindu College, Delhi. He was the UGC National Lecturer in 1973-74. He was a Reader in the History Department of Delhi University, before becoming the Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, soon after the university was founded. He was one the earliest members of the Centre for Historical Studies (CHS), JNU and helped in setting it up. He is presently an Emeritus Professor at the CHS. He was also a Visiting Professor at the Colegio de Mexico.
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