What is Bipan Chandra?
{{Infobox academic | name =Bipan Chandra | image =Bipan Chander. Chandigarh. 1979.jpg | caption = | birth_date = 1928 | birth_place = [[Kangra district]], [[Punjab, British India]]<!-- Himachal Pradesh didn't exist in 1928 --> | death_date = 30 August 2014 | death_place = [[Gurgaon]], [[Haryana]], [[India]] | citizenship =[[India]]n | discipline =[[History]] | alma_mater ={{Plainlist| *[[Forman Christian College]], [[Lahore]] *[[Stanford University]] *[[Delhi University]] }} | doctoral_advisor = Bishweshwar Prasad | notable_students = Majid Siddiqui, Mridula Mukherjee | awards =[[Padma Bhushan]] }} '''Bipan Chandra''' (1928-30 August 2014<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.mathrubhumi.com/english/news/latest-news/historian-bipan-chandra-is-dead-151195.html | title=Historian Bipan Chandra is dead | date=30 August 2014 | access-date=30 August 2014 | archive-date=30 August 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140830181515/http://www.mathrubhumi.com/english/news/latest-news/historian-bipan-chandra-is-dead-151195.html | url-status=deviated | archivedate=30 August 2014 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140830181515/http://www.mathrubhumi.com/english/news/latest-news/historian-bipan-chandra-is-dead-151195.html }}</ref>) was an [[India]]n historian. He wrote about economic and political history of modern [[India]]. He specialized on the national movement and is considered to be one India's greatest scholars on [[Mahatma Gandhi]]. He wrote several books, including ''The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism''. Chandra died on the morning of 30 August 2014, at his home in Gurgaon, after a long-illness, aged 86.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/historian-bipan-chandra-dies-at-the-age-of-86-584031?curl=1409377862 |title=Historian Bipan Chandra Dies At The Age of 86 |date=30 August 2014 |publisher=NDTV }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chandra, Bipan}} [[Category:1928 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:20th-century Indian writers]] [