He is one more prominent historian of the Marxist school of historiography, who has written several books on Indian history. Among them the Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism,Nationalism an is Colonialism in India,India Struggle for Independence and Communalism in Modern India are well known and standard books written on modern India. Bipan Chandra in his Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism,examined the economic policies of the Indian national movement before it spread to the various parts of the country. He adopted a realistic conception of history and treated ideas secondary to economic forces because these economic forces are the direct agents of historical evolution where as the ideas form the social relation which are crucial for social and political actions. This led him to Not down the speeches and writings of nationalist leaders , legislative bodies, newspapers and journals voicing nationalist opposition to the British economic imperialism.In his Nationalism ...
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