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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==
-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>
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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"/>
-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>
-* [[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==
+{{unreferenced section|date= May 2022}}
 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, [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
 ===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 &#124; 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 &#124; 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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