![]() ![]() ![]() He had come looking for support for the journal Enquiry, which he and some Marxist scholars were planning to issue. I met him, first not in Delhi, but at Aligarh, in 1959. He established contact with Communists there, and, caught in the net cast under Senator Mc Carthy’s anti-Communist crusade, he was deported to India.īack in Delhi in the early 1950s, Bipan Chandra was appointed lecturer in History at the Hindu College, Delhi. Thereafter he went to the United States where he studied at the Stanford University (California), presumably for his master’s degree. He graduated from Forman Christian College, Lahore, which the Partition forced him to leave. ![]() As used to be the case in old Punjab, his early education was in Urdu, and, as he once told me, he was best at home in his early years with an Urdu novel by his side. This is how, indeed, it should have been because Bipan Chandra’s death has been a great loss not only to the academic community but to the thinking part of our nation.īipan Chandra was born at Kangra (now in Himachal Pradesh) in 1928. ![]() His death was widely reported both in the newspapers and the electronic media, where there were also a spate of obituaries and commemorative commentaries. BIPAN Chandra, one of India’s leading historians and an uncompromising defender of secularism and the scientific spirit, passed away in the early hours of August 30, 2014. ![]()
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