Bipan Chandra (24 May 1928 – 30 August 2014)[2] was an Indian Marxist 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.

He established contact with Communists there, and, caught in the net cast under Senator McCarthy's anti-Communist crusade, he was deported to India.

[11] He collaborated with historians such Nurul Hasan, Ram Sharan Sharma, Sarvapalli Gopal, Satish Chandra, Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib, Barun De and Arjun Dev and some of his students, such as Mridula Mukherjee, Aditya Mukherjee, Sucheta Mahajan and Vishalakshi Menon, some of whose textbooks have previously been prescribed in the history syllabi of schools in India.[12][13]...

In April 2016, right-wing activist Dinanath Batra sought a ban on Chandra's India's Struggle for Independence because of a misunderstanding of the terminology used in it.