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title: "Amiya Kumar Bagchi"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiya_Kumar_Bagchi"
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Amiya Kumar Bagchi (1936 – 28 November 2024) was an Indian economic historian.
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== Life and career ==
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Bagchi earned his masters in economics at Presidency College, Kolkata, and his PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1963. His teaching career began at Presidency College, followed by a stint in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge in the 1960s, where he was a Fellow of Jesus College. He resigned his post in 1969 to return to Presidency College.
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In 1974 he joined the newly founded Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.
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Bagchi specialised in the history of Indian banking and finance, and acted as official historian of the State Bank of India until 1997.
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After retiring in 2001 as Reserve Bank of India Chair Professor from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, he became the founder-director of the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata.
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Bagchi died on 28 November 2024.
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== Awards and honours ==
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In 2005, Bagchi was awarded the Padma Shri.
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== Bibliography ==
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Bagchi authored over 250 academic articles and authored and edited numerous books and monographs.
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The books he authored included:
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2010 Colonialism and Indian Economy, Oxford University Press
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2005 Perilous Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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2004 The Developmental State in History and in the Twentieth Century, New Delhi: Regency
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2002 Capital and Labour Redefined: India and the Third World, Anthem Press
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1997 The Evolution of the State Bank of India: The Era of the Presidency Banks 1876–1920, Sage Publications
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1989 The Presidency Banks and the Indian Economy 1876–1914, Bombay: Oxford University Press
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1987 Public Intervention and Industrial Restructuring in China, India and Republic of Korea, New Delhi: ILO-ARTEP
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1987, reissued 2006 The Evolution of the State Bank of India. The Roots, 1806–1876, Oxford University Press; reissued by Penguin Portfolio
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1982 The Political Economy of Underdevelopment, Cambridge University Press
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1972 Private Investment in India 1900–1939, Cambridge University Press
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=== Edited and co-edited volumes ===
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2013 Transformation and Development: The Political Economy of Transition in China and India (with Anthony P. D'Costa) New Delhi: Oxford University Press
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2007 Capture and Exclude: Developing Economies and the Poor in Global Finance (with Gary A. Dymski) New Delhi: Tulika
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2005 Webs of History: Information, Communication and Technology from Early to Post-Colonial India (with D. Sinha and B. Bagchi), New Delhi: Manohar
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2005 Maladies, Preventives, and Curatives: Debates in Public Health in India (with K. Soman), New Delhi: Tulika
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2003 Economy and the Quality of Life: Essays in Memory of Ashok Rudra (with M. Chattopadhyay and R. Khasnabis), Kolkata: Dasgupta & Co.
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2002 Money and Credit in Indian History since Early Medieval Times, New Delhi: Tulika
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1999 Multiculturalism, Liberalism and Democracy (with R. Bhargava and R. Sudarshan), Oxford University Press
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1999 Economy and Organization: Indian Institutions under the Neoliberal Regime, Sage Publications
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1995 Democracy and Development: Proceedings of the IEA Conference Held in Barcelona, Spain, Palgrave Macmillan
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1995 New Technology and the Workers’ Response: Microelectronics, Labour and Society, Sage Publications
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1988 Economy, Society and Polity: Essays in the Political Economy of Indian Planning in Honour of Professor Bhabatosh Datta, Oxford University Press
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=== Chapters in books ===
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Bagchi, Amiya Kumar (2009), "The capability approach and the political economy of human development", in Kanbur, Ravi; Basu, Kaushik (eds.), Arguments for a better world: essays in honor of Amartya Sen | Volume II: Society, institutions and development, Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 31–47, ISBN 9780199239979.
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== References ==
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== External links ==
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"Capital and capitalists nannied by the states: An Interview with Amiya Kumar Bagchi". Radical Notes. 18 October 2008. Archived from the original on 30 May 2023.
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Murali, D. (17 July 2010). "Property right subjugation by British land tax". Business Line. Archived from the original on 14 April 2024. |