Hindi in the Nineteenth Century: Literary and Political Trajectories

Bipan Chandra gave his first Presidential Address, ‘Colonialism and Modernization’, for the Modern India section of the Indian History Congres
in 1970, in which he argued that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the periods when the links between British colonialism and Indian economy were weakened or disrupted (such as during the two world wars and the Depression) were also the periods when a major spurt in India’s industrial development took place (Chandra 1979: 1–38). Then, fifteen years later he became the General President at the Amritsar session of the IHC in 1985.