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	'''Amiya Kumar Bagchi''' (born 1936) is ~~a distinguished~~ Indian political economist.<ref name="urlThe Hindu : Book Review : An `alternative history">{{cite news \|url=http://www.hindu.com/br/2006/10/03/stories/2006100301151400.htm \|title=The Hindu : Book Review : An 'alternative history' \|access-date=9 February 2010 \|location=Chennai, India \|date=3 October 2006}}</ref> His contributions have spanned [[economic history]], the economics of industrialisation and deindustrialisation, and [[development studies]] from an overall [[Marxist]] perspective, incorporating insights from other schools of radical political economics, including left [[Keynesianism~~]]. Among Marxists, he is known for his extensive contributions to theories of [[imperialism]] and [[underdevelopment~~]].		'''Amiya Kumar Bagchi''' (born 1936) is aN Indian political economist.<ref name="urlThe Hindu : Book Review : An `alternative history">{{cite news \|url=http://www.hindu.com/br/2006/10/03/stories/2006100301151400.htm \|title=The Hindu : Book Review : An 'alternative history' \|access-date=9 February 2010 \|location=Chennai, India \|date=3 October 2006}}</ref> His contributions have spanned [[economic history]], the economics of industrialisation and deindustrialisation, and [[development studies]] from an overall [[Marxist]] perspective, incorporating insights from other schools of radical political economics, including left [[Keynesianism]].

	==Biography==		==Biography==
	Born in 1936 in the small village of Jadupur in [[Murshidabad]] district in [[West Bengal]], Bagchi received his higher education in [[Presidency College, Kolkata]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge\|Trinity College]], University of Cambridge. In 1963 he was awarded the PhD degree at [[Cambridge University]] for a thesis titled "Private investment and partial planning in India".{{citation needed\|date=February 2015}}

	~~He was married to the feminist critic and activist [[Jasodhara Bagchi]].~~

	His academic career began when he started teaching in Presidency College, [[Kolkata]]. In the 1960s, he taught in the Faculty of Economics in Cambridge (where he was Fellow of [[Jesus College, Cambridge\|Jesus College]]), but resigned his post in 1969, to resume his academic career in Presidency College, Kolkata.<ref name="idsk.org">{{cite web \|url=http://idsk.org/amiya.html \|title=Archived copy \|access-date=2010-03-03 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726171113/http://idsk.org/amiya.html \|archive-date=26 July 2011 \|df=dmy-all }}</ref>		His academic career began when he started teaching in Presidency College, [[Kolkata]]. In the 1960s, he taught in the Faculty of Economics in Cambridge (where he was Fellow of [[Jesus College, Cambridge\|Jesus College]]), but resigned his post in 1969, to resume his academic career in Presidency College, Kolkata.<ref name="idsk.org">{{cite web \|url=http://idsk.org/amiya.html \|title=Archived copy \|access-date=2010-03-03 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726171113/http://idsk.org/amiya.html \|archive-date=26 July 2011 \|df=dmy-all }}</ref>
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	Bagchi has specialised in the history of Indian banking and finance, and acted as Official Historian of the [[State Bank of India]] (SBI) from 1976 to 1998; he played a leading role in ensuring that the unique archives of SBI are preserved for posterity.<ref name="idsk.org"/>		Bagchi has specialised in the history of Indian banking and finance, and acted as Official Historian of the [[State Bank of India]] (SBI) from 1976 to 1998; he played a leading role in ensuring that the unique archives of SBI are preserved for posterity.<ref name="idsk.org"/>

	After retiring as [[Reserve Bank of India]] professor from the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]] in 2001, he became the founder-director of the [[Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata]],<ref name="idsk.org"/> a multidisciplinary centre of excellence in the [[social sciences]], which is affiliated with the [[University of Calcutta]], and is promoted by the government of West Bengal.<ref name="idsk.org"/> His famous discourse on quasi-capitalist banking has been recognised a masterpiece by [[Bloomberg L.P.]]. He spearheads research in development studies in an array of areas, notably banking and finance, [[public health]], labour studies, [[communication studies\|information and communication studies]], [[gender studies]], education, and the sociology of literature.		After retiring as [[Reserve Bank of India]] professor from the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]] in 2001, he became the founder-director of the [[Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata]],<ref name="idsk.org"/> a multidisciplinary centre of excellence in the [[social sciences]], which is affiliated with the [[University of Calcutta]], and is promoted by the government of West Bengal.<ref name="idsk.org"/>

	He has been Visiting Professor in international academic institutions such as [[Cambridge University]], [[School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences\|École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales]], [[Cornell University]], [[Curtin University]], [[Perth, Western Australia]], [[Naples University]], and ~~[[University of Bristol]].{{citation needed\|date~~=~~February 2015}}~~		==Awards and honours==
			The professional awards and honours Bagchi has received include:

	~~==Awards and honours==~~
	~~The professional awards and honours Bagchi has received include:{{citation needed\|date=February 2015}}~~
	* [[V.K.R.V. Rao award]] for Economics, awarded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, 1980.
	* Pranabananda Saraswati award for Economics, awarded by the UGC, 1994.
	* the H.K. Barpujari award of the Indian History Congress for The Evolution of the State Bank of India Vol. II, 1999.
	* [[Roskilde University]], [[Denmark]], conferred a [[doctorate honoris causa]] on him in September 2001.
	* He received an honorary D.Litt. from the [[University of Kalyani]] in December 2002.
	* Muzaffar Ahmad award for Capital and Labour Redefined in 2004.
	* [[Padma Shri]] of the government of India 2005.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web \|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf \|title=Padma Awards \|publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India \|date=2015 \|access-date=July 21, 2015 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf \|archive-date=15 October 2015 \|df=dmy }}</ref>		* [[Padma Shri]] of the government of India 2005.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web \|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf \|title=Padma Awards \|publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India \|date=2015 \|access-date=July 21, 2015 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf \|archive-date=15 October 2015 \|df=dmy }}</ref>
	* [[North Bengal University]] conferred a D.Sc. honoris causa on him in March 2008.
	* In March 2008 he became the first Chancellor of the newly reconstituted Tripura University, a Central University.

	==Bibliography==		==Bibliography==
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	Bagchi has authored over 250 academic articles and has authored and edited numerous books and monographs.		Bagchi has authored over 250 academic articles and has authored and edited numerous books and monographs.

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	*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, [https://web.archive.org/web/20070315000017/http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2002&leaf=06&filename=4555&filetype=html The Other Side of Foreign Investment by Imperial Powers], ''Economic & Political Weekly'' (8 June 2002)		*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, [https://web.archive.org/web/20070315000017/http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2002&leaf=06&filename=4555&filetype=html The Other Side of Foreign Investment by Imperial Powers], ''Economic & Political Weekly'' (8 June 2002)
	*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, [http://www.cdedse.org/papers/9march2002/occpap2.pdf The problem of colonialism in classical political economy : analysis, [[epistemological]] breaks and mystification]{{dead link\|date=October 2016 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes }}, Centre for Development Economics/Delhi School of Economics Occasional Paper 1, March 2002		*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, [http://www.cdedse.org/papers/9march2002/occpap2.pdf The problem of colonialism in classical political economy : analysis, [[epistemological]] breaks and mystification]{{dead link\|date=October 2016 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes }}, Centre for Development Economics/Delhi School of Economics Occasional Paper 1, March 2002
	*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, [https://web.archive.org/web/20050326230840/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1902/19021220.htm The ails of the system], ''Frontline'' Volume 19 – Issue 02, 19 Jan – 1 February 2002		*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, {{usurped\|[https://web.archive.org/web/20050326230840/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1902/19021220.htm The ails of the system]}}, ''Frontline'' Volume 19 – Issue 02, 19 Jan – 1 February 2002
	*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, [https://web.archive.org/web/20071014174548/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1612/16120640.htm Amartya Sen's Human Science of Development], ''Frontline'' Volume 16 – Issue 12, 5–18 June 1999		*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, {{usurped\|[https://web.archive.org/web/20071014174548/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1612/16120640.htm Amartya Sen's Human Science of Development]}}, ''Frontline'' Volume 16 – Issue 12, 5–18 June 1999
	*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, [https://web.archive.org/web/20061102005049/http://jwsr.ucr.edu/archive/vol6/number2/pdf/jwsr-v6n2-bagchi.pdf The Past and the Future of the Developmental State], ''Journal of World-Systems Research'', vi, 2, summer/fall 2000, 398–442 Special Issue: Festchrift for Immanuel Wallerstein – Part I		*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, [https://web.archive.org/web/20061102005049/http://jwsr.ucr.edu/archive/vol6/number2/pdf/jwsr-v6n2-bagchi.pdf The Past and the Future of the Developmental State], ''Journal of World-Systems Research'', vi, 2, summer/fall 2000, 398–442 Special Issue: Festchrift for Immanuel Wallerstein – Part I

	===Chapters in books===		===Chapters in books===
	* {{Citation \| last1 = Bagchi \| first1 = Amiya Kumar \| contribution = The capability approach and the political economy of human development \| ~~editor~~-~~last1~~ = Kanbur \| ~~editor~~-~~first1~~ = Ravi \| ~~editor~~-~~last2~~ = Basu \| ~~editor~~-~~first2~~ = Kaushik \| editor-link1= Ravi Kanbur \| editor-link2 = Kaushik Basu \| title = Arguments for a better world: essays in honor of Amartya Sen \| Volume II: Society, institutions and development \| pages = 31–47 \| publisher = Oxford University Press \| location = Oxford New York \| year = 2009 \| isbn = 9780199239979 \| postscript = .}}		* {{Citation \| last1 = Bagchi \| first1 = Amiya Kumar \| contribution = The capability approach and the political economy of human development \| editor1-last = Kanbur \| editor1-first = Ravi \| editor2-last = Basu \| editor2-first = Kaushik \| editor-link1= Ravi Kanbur \| editor-link2 = Kaushik Basu \| title = Arguments for a better world: essays in honor of Amartya Sen \| Volume II: Society, institutions and development \| pages = 31–47 \| publisher = Oxford University Press \| location = Oxford New York \| year = 2009 \| isbn = 9780199239979 \| postscript = .}}

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'''Amiya Kumar Bagchi''' (born 1936) is a distinguished Indian political economist.<ref name="urlThe Hindu : Book Review : An `alternative history">{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/br/2006/10/03/stories/2006100301151400.htm |title=The Hindu : Book Review : An 'alternative history' |access-date=9 February 2010 |location=Chennai, India |date=3 October 2006}}</ref> His contributions have spanned [[economic history]], the economics of industrialisation and deindustrialisation, and [[development studies]] from an overall [[Marxist]] perspective, incorporating insights from other schools of radical political economics, including left [[Keynesianism]]. Among Marxists, he is known for his extensive contributions to theories of [[imperialism]] and [[underdevelopment]].

==Biography==
Born in 1936 in the small village of Jadupur in [[Murshidabad]] district in [[West Bengal]], Bagchi received his higher education in [[Presidency College, Kolkata]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]], University of Cambridge. In 1963 he was awarded the PhD degree at [[Cambridge University]] for a thesis titled "Private investment and partial planning in India".{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}

He was married to the feminist critic and activist [[Jasodhara Bagchi]].

His academic career began when he started teaching in Presidency College, [[Kolkata]]. In the 1960s, he taught in the Faculty of Economics in Cambridge (where he was Fellow of [[Jesus College, Cambridge|Jesus College]]), but resigned his post in 1969, to resume his academic career in Presidency College, Kolkata.<ref name="idsk.org">{{cite web |url=http://idsk.org/amiya.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-03-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726171113/http://idsk.org/amiya.html |archive-date=26 July 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

In 1974 he joined the newly founded [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]], which went on to become one of the most productive and globally famous research institutions in [[India]].<ref>http://www.caleidoscop.org/Members/Marius/news-caleidoscop-2009/post-doctoral-fellowship-2009-rabindranath-tagore-centre-for-human-development-studies{{Dead link|date=April 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Bagchi has specialised in the history of Indian banking and finance, and acted as Official Historian of the [[State Bank of India]] (SBI) from 1976 to 1998; he played a leading role in ensuring that the unique archives of SBI are preserved for posterity.<ref name="idsk.org"/>

After retiring as [[Reserve Bank of India]] professor from the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]] in 2001, he became the founder-director of the [[Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata]],<ref name="idsk.org"/> a multidisciplinary centre of excellence in the [[social sciences]], which is affiliated with the [[University of Calcutta]], and is promoted by the government of West Bengal.<ref name="idsk.org"/> His famous discourse on quasi-capitalist banking has been recognised a masterpiece by [[Bloomberg L.P.]]. He spearheads research in development studies in an array of areas, notably banking and finance, [[public health]], labour studies, [[communication studies|information and communication studies]], [[gender studies]], education, and the sociology of literature.

He has been Visiting Professor in international academic institutions such as [[Cambridge University]], [[School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences|École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales]], [[Cornell University]], [[Curtin University]], [[Perth, Western Australia]], [[Naples University]], and [[University of Bristol]].{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}

==Awards and honours==
The professional awards and honours Bagchi has received include:{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}
* [[V.K.R.V. Rao award]] for Economics, awarded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, 1980.
* Pranabananda Saraswati award for Economics, awarded by the UGC, 1994.
* the H.K. Barpujari award of the Indian History Congress for The Evolution of the State Bank of India Vol. II, 1999.
* [[Roskilde University]], [[Denmark]], conferred a [[doctorate honoris causa]] on him in September 2001.
* He received an honorary D.Litt. from the [[University of Kalyani]] in December 2002.
* Muzaffar Ahmad award for Capital and Labour Redefined in 2004.
* [[Padma Shri]] of the government of India 2005.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=July 21, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 |df=dmy }}</ref>
* [[North Bengal University]] conferred a D.Sc. honoris causa on him in March 2008.
* In March 2008 he became the first Chancellor of the newly reconstituted Tripura University, a Central University.

==Bibliography==
Bagchi has authored over 250 academic articles and has authored and edited numerous books and monographs.

The books he has authored include:
*2010 ''Colonialism and Indian Economy'', Oxford University Press
*2005 ''[[Perilous Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital]]'', Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
*2004 ''The Developmental State in History and in the Twentieth Century'', New Delhi: Regency
*2002 ''Capital and Labour Redefined: India and the Third World'', Anthem Press
*1997 ''The Evolution of the State Bank of India: The Era of the Presidency Banks 1876–1920'', Sage Publications
*1989 ''The Presidency Banks and the Indian Economy 1876–1914'', Bombay:. Oxford University Press
*1987 ''Public Intervention and Industrial Restructuring in China, India and Republic of Korea'', New Delhi: ILO-ARTEP
*1987, reissued 2006 ''The Evolution of the State Bank of India. The Roots, 1806–1876'', Oxford University Press; reissued by Penguin Portfolio
*1982 ''The Political Economy of Underdevelopment'', Cambridge University Press
*1972 ''Private Investment in India 1900–1939'', Cambridge University Press

===Edited and co-edited volumes===
*2007 ''Capture and Exclude: Developing Economies and the Poor in Global Finance'' (with Gary A. Dymski) New Delhi: Tulika
*2005 ''Webs of History: Information, Communication and Technology from Early to Post-Colonial India'' (with D. Sinha and B. Bagchi), New Delhi: Manohar
*2005 ''Maladies, Preventives, and Curatives: Debates in Public Health in India'' (with K. Soman), New Delhi: Tulika
*2003 ''Economy and the Quality of Life: Essays in Memory of Ashok Rudra'' (with M. Chattopadhyay and R. Khasnabis), Kolkata: Dasgupta & Co.
*2002 ''Money and Credit in Indian History since Early Medieval Times'', New Delhi: Tulika
*1999 ''Multiculturalism, Liberalism and Democracy'' (with R. Bhargava and R. Sudarshan), Oxford University Press
*1999 ''Economy and Organization: Indian Institutions under the Neoliberal Regime'', Sage Publications
*1995 ''Democracy and Development: Proceedings of the IEA Conference Held in Barcelona, Spain'', Palgrave Macmillan
*1995 ''New Technology and the Workers’ Response: Microelectronics, Labour and Society'', Sage Publications
*1988 ''Economy, Society and Polity: Essays in the Political Economy of Indian Planning in Honour of Professor [[Bhabatosh Datta]]'', Oxford University Press

===Papers===
*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, [http://www.networkideas.org/feathm/mar2006/Amiya_Bagchi.pdf China and India: From where? Where to? A preliminary investigation], Paper presented at International Development Economics Associates (IDEAS) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) conference on 'Post Liberalisation Constraints on Macroeconomic Policies', Muttukadu, Chennai, India, 27–29 January 2006
*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, [http://www.monthlyreview.org/0703bagchi.htm The Parameters of Resistance], ''Monthly Review'', Vol 55 No 3 (July–Aug 2003)
*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, [https://web.archive.org/web/20070315000017/http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2002&leaf=06&filename=4555&filetype=html The Other Side of Foreign Investment by Imperial Powers], ''Economic & Political Weekly'' (8 June 2002)
*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, [http://www.cdedse.org/papers/9march2002/occpap2.pdf The problem of colonialism in classical political economy : analysis, [[epistemological]] breaks and mystification]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Centre for Development Economics/Delhi School of Economics Occasional Paper 1, March 2002
*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, [https://web.archive.org/web/20050326230840/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1902/19021220.htm The ails of the system], ''Frontline'' Volume 19 – Issue 02, 19 Jan – 1 February 2002
*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, [https://web.archive.org/web/20071014174548/http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1612/16120640.htm Amartya Sen's Human Science of Development], ''Frontline'' Volume 16 – Issue 12, 5–18 June 1999
*Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, [https://web.archive.org/web/20061102005049/http://jwsr.ucr.edu/archive/vol6/number2/pdf/jwsr-v6n2-bagchi.pdf The Past and the Future of the Developmental State], ''Journal of World-Systems Research'', vi, 2, summer/fall 2000, 398–442 Special Issue: Festchrift for Immanuel Wallerstein – Part I

===Chapters in books===
* {{Citation | last1 = Bagchi | first1 = Amiya Kumar | contribution = The capability approach and the political economy of human development | editor-last1 = Kanbur | editor-first1 = Ravi | editor-last2 = Basu | editor-first2 = Kaushik | editor-link1= Ravi Kanbur | editor-link2 = Kaushik Basu | title = Arguments for a better world: essays in honor of Amartya Sen | Volume II: Society, institutions and development | pages = 31–47 | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 2009 | isbn = 9780199239979 | postscript = .}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[[C.T. Kurien|Kurien, CT]], [http://www.hindu.com/br/2006/10/03/stories/2006100301151400.htm Review of PERILOUS PASSAGE — Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital], ''The Hindu'' (3 October 2006)
*Radical Notes, [https://web.archive.org/web/20081106102015/http://radicalnotes.com/content/view/75/39/ Capital and capitalists nannied by the states: An Interview with Amiya Kumar Bagchi], ''Radical Notes'' (18 October 2008)
*Murali, D, [http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/07/17/stories/2010071751750700.htm], 'Property Right Subjugation by British Land Tax,' review of an essay in Bagchi's 2010 book ''Colonialism and'' ''Indian Economy'', ''The Hindu Businessline'' (17 July 2010).
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