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{{short description|Indian academic and administrator (born 1936)}}
'''Dipak K. Nandy''' (born 21 May 1936) is an Indian academic and administrator.

Beginning his career as a Lecturer in English literature, Nandy developed greater interests in race relations and was the first director of the [[Runnymede Trust]]. He was later a Special Consultant to the [[Home Office]] and deputy director of the [[Equal Opportunities Commission (United Kingdom)|Equal Opportunities Commission]].

==Early life==
Nandy was born in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], [[India]], on 21 May 1936, into a middle-class Bengali family,<ref name=ORSP>Olivier Esteves, Stéphane Porion, ''The Lives and Afterlives of Enoch Powell: The Undying Political Animal'' (Routledge, 2019, {{ISBN|9781138339286}}), [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K4mUDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT147 p. 147]</ref> and was educated at [[St. Xavier's Collegiate School|St Xavier's College]].

He arrived in Britain in March 1956 with the aim of getting a university degree,<ref name=ORSP/> and worked for a time on the night shift at [[Cadbury Schweppes]]. He was then offered a place in the English Literature Department at the [[University of Leeds]]. He later stated that [[Leeds]], in the 1950s, was, in range, variety and intellectual strength, the most exciting place in Britain to be. He took his first degree at Leeds in 1960, then began to work for the degree of doctor of philosophy, but was distracted from that by interests in physics, maths, music, and philosophy, and in 1962 was appointed to his first academic post, at the [[University of Leicester]].<ref name=ORSP/>

==Career==
On his arrival at Leicester, his colleague [[Relationships that influenced Philip Larkin#Monica Jones|Monica Jones]] described Nandy as "a coloured communist".<ref>{{cite news|title=Monica Jones|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/mar/15/guardianobituaries.books|accessdate=31 March 2018|publisher=Guardian|date=15 March 2001}}</ref> In 1964, he was appointed as a lecturer, and from 1964 to 1967 chaired the Leicester Campaign for Racial Equality and also took part in sit-ins at the Admiral Nelson pub, which at that time had a [[colour bar]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Jacobs|first1=Barbara|title=Leicester graduate presents programme on fight against racism|url=https://www2.le.ac.uk/news/blog/2011-archive/november/leicester-graduate-presents-programme-on-fight-against-racism|accessdate=31 March 2018|agency=Leicester University|date=2 November 2011}}</ref> In 1966 and 1967, he was Director of the [[Campaign Against Racial Discrimination]] Summer Projects; he also joined the Information Panel of the National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants and served as Secretary of Equal Rights.

Nandy left his academic post in 1968 to found and run the [[Runnymede Trust]], which he directed until 1973. He was also a member of the [[BBC]]'s Immigrants Advisory Committee and of the Council of the [[Institute of Race Relations (United Kingdom)|Institute of Race Relations]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The Runnymede Trust Begins Work|url=http://www.runnymedetrust.org/histories/index.php?mact=OralHistories,cntnt01,default,0&cntnt01qid=39&cntnt01returnid=20|accessdate=18 March 2018|publisher=Runnymede Trust|date=October 1968}}</ref>

After a brief break at Social and Community Planning Research, 1973-1974, he was recruited as a Special Consultant by the [[Home Office]], to work on the [[Sex Discrimination Act 1975|Sex Discrimination Bill]], before in 1976 helping to draft the Labour government’s [[Race Relations Act 1976]].

In 1975, [[Hugo Young]] described Nandy as a highly intelligent academic, administrator and politician.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Young|first1=Hugo|title=The Hugo Young Papers: Thirty Years of British Politics - Off the Record|date=2008|publisher=Allen Lane|isbn=978-1846140549}}</ref>

In 1976, he went to Manchester, where the [[Equal Opportunities Commission (United Kingdom)|Equal Opportunities Commission]] had been located, and remained its Deputy Director and chief policymaker for the next ten years, remaining until 1986. There, among other work, he was intimately involved in driving through the Government's policy on taxation (''The Taxation of Husband and Wife'') by pressing for the equalisation of the State Pension ages of men and women. He successfully briefed Liberal and Labour MPs and peers to redraft the Government's proposed amendment to the ''Equal Pay Act 1970''.

In 1979, Nandy began to forge a link with the Directorate-General V of the European Commission, and organised a representative conference on outstanding issues in the progress towards equal treatment of women throughout the nine members of the European Economic Community as at 1981, and acted as the Conference Secretary.

Nandy always had a detailed personal interest in broadcasting as 'the way a society talks to itself', and he served as the Chairman of the BBC's Immigrant Programme, 1983-1988, and as a member of its General Council, 1983-1990. He was appointed a member of Lord Annan‘s Committee of Inquiry into the Future of Broadcasting, 1974–77, which created Channel 4 instead of the widely expected ITV2, and successfully lobbied through the Committee's report for a unified Broadcasting Complaints Commission.<ref>{{cite web|title=HO 245 - Committee on The Future of Broadcasting (1974-1977): Minutes, Evidence and Papers|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C2671350|website=National Archives|publisher=Home Office|accessdate=18 March 2018|date=1974–1977}}</ref>

==Personal life==
In 1960, while still a student at Leeds, Nandy met Margaret Gracie, whom he dated until 1964, when they were married in Leeds.<ref>“NANDY Dipak K and GRACIE Margaret” in Register of Marriages for Leeds, vol. 2C (1964), p. 654</ref> They separated in 1971,<ref>{{cite web
|last1=Newitt|first1=Ned|title=Who's Who in Radical Leicester|url=http://www.nednewitt.com/whoswho/G.html|accessdate=7 March 2015
}}</ref> and in 1972, in [[Lambeth]], Nandy married secondly Ann Louise Byers,<ref>“NANDY Dipak K and BYERS Ann L” in Register of Marriages for Lambeth, vol. 5D (1972), p. 248</ref> a daughter of [[Frank Byers|Lord Byers]], Leader of the Liberals in the [[House of Lords]]. Their youngest daughter, [[Lisa Nandy]], was born in 1979. She became a Labour Member of Parliament in 2010, and has stated that her father considers her right wing.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Lisa Nandy Interview: 'Ed Miliband Is A Different Sort Of Politician'
|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/13/lisa-nandy-ed-miliband_n_6152408.html
|accessdate=18 March 2018|publisher=Independent|date=17 November 2014
}}</ref>

==Publications==
* {{Cite journal
|first=Dipak |last=Nandy
|author-link=Dipak Nandy
|title=Ancient Indian Materialism
|journal=[[Marxism Today]]
|date=January 1962
}}<ref>{{cite journal
|first=Dipak |last=Nandy
|author-link=Dipak Nandy
|title=Ancient Indian Materialism
|journal=[[Marxism Today]]
|date=January 1962
|pages=13–21
}}</ref>
* {{Cite journal
|first=Dipak |last=Nandy
|author-link=Dipak Nandy
|author-mask=2
|title=How Not to Write History
|journal=Marxism Today
|date=January 1963
}}<ref>{{cite journal
|first=Dipak |last=Nandy
|author-link=Dipak Nandy
|title=How Not to Write History
|journal=[[Marxism Today]]
|date=January 1963
}}</ref>
*{{Cite book
|title=Order, empiricism and politics
|first=Dipak |last=Nandy
|author-link=Dipak Nandy
|author-mask=2
|publisher=Philosophical Books
|year=1965
}}
*{{Cite journal
|first=Dipak |last=Nandy
|author-link=Dipak Nandy
|author-mask=2 |title=Who Is the Leper Now?
|journal=[[The Labour Monthly]]
|date=September 1965
}}<ref>{{cite journal
|first=Dipak |last=Nandy
|author-link=Dipak Nandy
|title=Who Is the Leper Now?
|journal=[[The Labour Monthly]]
|date=September 1965
|pages=418–422
}}</ref>
*{{Cite book
|title=The English mind
|first=Dipak |last=Nandy
|author-link=Dipak Nandy
|author-mask=2
|publisher=Philosophical Books
|year=1965
}}
* {{Cite journal
|first=Dipak |last=Nandy
|author-link=Dipak Nandy
|author-mask=2
|title=Immigrants at Work
|journal=The Labour Monthly
|date=June 1966
}}<ref>{{cite journal
|first=Dipak |last=Nandy
|author-link=Dipak Nandy
|title=Immigrants at Work
|journal=[[The Labour Monthly]]
|date=June 1966
}}</ref>
*{{Cite book
|first=Dipak |last=Nandy
|author-link=Dipak Nandy
|author-mask=2
|title=How to Calculate Immigration Statistics
|publisher=Runnymede Trust
|year=1968
}}
*{{Cite book
|title=Race and Community
|first=Dipak |last=Nandy
|author-link=Dipak Nandy
|author-mask=2
|year=1968
|isbn=0950009806
}}
*{{Cite news
|first=Dipak |last=Nandy
|authorlink=Dipak Nandy
|author-mask=2
|title=La société britannique face aux immigrants de couleur
|newspaper=[[Le Monde diplomatique]]
|date=July 1968
}}<ref>{{cite news
|first=Dipak |last=Nandy
|authorlink=Dipak Nandy
|title=La société britannique face aux immigrants de couleur
|url=https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1968/07/A/28505
|accessdate=31 March 2018
|newspaper=[[Le Monde diplomatique]]
|language=fr
|date=July 1968
}}</ref>
*{{Cite book
|title=How to calculate immigration statistics
|first=Dipak |last=Nandy
|author-link=Dipak Nandy
|author-mask=2
|publisher=Runnymede Trust
|year=1970
}}
*{{Cite book
|title=Race in the inner city
|first1=Dipak |last1=Nandy
|author-link=Dipak Nandy
|first2=Bob |last2=Holman
|author2link=Bob Holman (academic)
|first3=John |last3=Lambert
|publisher=Runnymede Trust
|year=1972
}}
*{{Cite book
|title=The Uses of Fiction: Essays on the Modern Novel in Honour of Arnold Kettle
|chapter=Introduction
|first=Dipak |last=Nandy
|author-link=Dipak Nandy
|editor-first1=Douglas |editor-last1=Jefferson
|editor-first2=Graham |editor-last2=Martin
|publisher=Open University Press
|year=1982
|isbn=033510181X
|pages=1–8
}}
*{{Cite magazine
|first=Dipak |last=Nandy
|authorlink=Dipak Nandy
|author-mask=2
|title=Famine---who runs the world?
|magazine=[[New Statesman]]
|date=30 May 1986
}}<ref>{{cite news
|first=Dipak |last=Nandy
|author-link=Dipak Nandy
|title=Famine---who runs the world?
|magazine=[[New Statesman]]
|date=30 May 1986
}}</ref>
*{{Cite book
|contribution=Arnold Kettle and English Marxist Literary Criticism
|title=Literature and Liberation: Selected Essays
|first=Arnold |last=Kettle
|author-link=Arnold Kettle
|contributor1-first=Dipak |contributor1-last=Nandy
|contributor1-link=Dipak Nandy
|editor-first1=Graham |editor-last1=Martin
|editor-first2=W.R. |editor-last2=Owens
|publisher=Manchester University Press
|year=1988
|isbn=0719025419
|pages=1–17
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IzO9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1
}}
*{{Cite book
|title=Sir Peter Medawar O.M., C.H., C.B.E., F.R.S. 1915–1987. A Personal Memoir
|first=Dipak |last=Nandy
|author-link=Dipak Nandy
|author-mask=2
|publisher=Runnymede Trust
|year=1988
|isbn=0902397745
}}

==Filmography==

*''Racial Discrimination'', Rediffusion, 1967<ref>{{cite web|title=This Week (1956–1992)|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1741113/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_2|website=IMDB|accessdate=31 March 2018}}</ref>
* [[Question Time (TV series)|Question Time]] 14 February 1985 <ref>{{cite web|title=Question Time |url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1149126/?ref_=m_tt_ep_pr|website=IMDB|accessdate=14 December 2019}}</ref>
*''A Question of Colour'', Open University, 1982

==References==

{{reflist}}

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[[Category:Writers from Kolkata]]
[[Category:Academics of the University of Leicester]]

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