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Indian National Movement: The Long Term Dynamics, authored by Bipan Chandra, is a book that delves into the intricacies of the history of India’s freedom struggle. Summary of the Book Bipan Chandra explores the national movement in a whole new analytical framework in Indian National Movement: The Long Term Dynamics. Based on the theoretical advances made by Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist thinker, the book asserts that the Indian national movement was a comprehensive, integrated struggle, rather than a series of local movements across the nation. This perspective has more so to do with Gandhi; the role that nonviolence played as the ideology of the freedom movement, the connection that the leaders then had with the masses are also detailed, with all the subtleties being brought out brilliantly and clearly. About Bipan Chandra Bipan Chandra is an esteemed Indian author and historian. He completed his higher education at the Stanford University, and later obtained doctorate from the University of Delhi. For many years, Chandra worked as a professor at the Hindu College, Delhi and the Jawaharlal Nehru University. In 1985, he was selected as the General President of the Indian History Congress. Chandra has worked as the Chairman of the National Book Trust. He has also been associated with the University Grants Commission, New Delhi. Bipan Chandra has also authored the books Essays on Colonialism, The Epic Struggle, Communalism in Modern India, The Rise And Growth Of Economic Nationalism In India: Economic Policies Of Indian National Leadership, Indian National Movement: The Long Term Dynamics, and In The Name Of Democracy: The JP Movement And The Emergency.