Satish Chandra

Satish Chandra
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Allahabad University
Occupation	Historian
Known for	Authoring books about medieval Indian history

Satish Chandra is an Indian historian, whose main area of specialisation is medieval Indian history.

He was the son of Sir Sitaram, a leading businessman from the former United Provinces, who later became India's High Commissioner to Pakistan.

Satish Chandra was Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi. Along with S. Gopal, Bipan Chandra, and Romila Thapar, he founded the Centre for Historical Studies at the School of Social Sciences in JNU. He was also its chairperson for a few years.

He has been described as of India's leading scholars of the Moghul period and as one of India's most influential historians. His book, Medieval India, has been widely used as a textbook in schools and colleges around India.

Through the 1970s, he was the vice chairman and chairman of the University Grants Commission of India. He was also the secretary and president of the Indian History Congress.

Among his various other appointments, in 1988, he was asked, by Union Public Service Commission, to head a committee to review the system of appointments to the higher civil services.

Satish Chandra belonged to the secular nationalist group of historians, along with Romila Thapar, R. S. Sharma, Bipan Chandra and Arjun Dev, who are sometimes referred to as "left-leaning" or "influenced by Marxist approach to history." In 2004 his textbook was reintroduced in the national curriculum after a hiatus of six years.

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