Amiya Kumar Bagchi
Amiya Kumar Bagchi was an Indian economic historian.
Life and career
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.In 1974 he joined the newly founded Centre for Studies in [Social Sciences, Calcutta].
Bagchi specialised in the history of Indian banking and finance, and acted as official historian of the State Bank of India until 1997.
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.
Bagchi died on 28 November 2024.
Awards and honours
In 2005, Bagchi was awarded the Padma Shri.Edited and co-edited volumes
- 2013 Transformation and Development: The Political Economy of Transition in China and India New Delhi: Oxford University Press
- 2007 Capture and Exclude: Developing Economies and the Poor in Global Finance New Delhi: Tulika
- 2005 Webs of History: Information, Communication and Technology from Early to Post-Colonial India, New Delhi: Manohar
- 2005 Maladies, Preventives, and Curatives: Debates in Public Health in India, New Delhi: Tulika
- 2003 Economy and the Quality of Life: Essays in Memory of Ashok Rudra, Kolkata: Dasgupta & Co.
- 2002 Money and Credit in Indian History since Early Medieval Times, New Delhi: Tulika
- 1999 Multiculturalism, Liberalism and Democracy, 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