| 1. Professor Bipan Chandra was a renowned Indian historian, author, and educator. |
| 2. Following the partition of India, he embraced Marxism after relocating from Lahore. |
| 3. During his time at Stanford University, he attended lectures given by Paul Baran. |
| 4. Teaching at Delhi University for nearly 43 years, he was highly esteemed by his students. |
| 5. His significant contributions to the NCERT curriculum are widely acknowledged. |
| 6. He began his academic career as a lecturer at Hindu College, Delhi in the early 1950s. |
| 7. He co-edited the journal Enquiry with other Marxist scholars. |
| 8. He collaborated with historians like Mridula Mukherjee and Aditya Mukherjee on textbooks used in schools across India. |
| 9. He began his academic career as a volunteer of the right-wing Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh before evolving into a Marxist historian after his exposure to other schools of historiography in the United States. |
| 10. Teaching at Delhi University and later JNU for several decades, he was highly esteemed by his students. |
| 11. He helped discover the seminal tract by Bhagat Singh titled 'Why I am an Atheist'. |
| 12. He was deeply committed to secular historiography and opposed communalism throughout his career. |
| 13. His work demonstrated that early Indian nationalists made powerful critiques of British colonial economic policies. |
