Amiya Kumar Bagchi
Born	1936 (1936)
Died	28 November 2024(2024-11-28) (aged 87–88)
Academic work
Discipline	Economics
Sub-discipline	Economic history
Institutions	Cambridge University Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata

Amiya Kumar Bagchi (1936 – 28 November 2024) was an Indian economic historian.^[1]

Bagchi earned his masters in economics atPresidency College, Kolkata, and his PhD fromTrinity College, Cambridge in 1963.^[2] His teaching career began at Presidency College, followed by a stint in the Faculty of Economics at theUniversity of Cambridge in the 1960s, where he was a Fellow ofJesus College.^[3] He resigned his post in 1969 to return to Presidency College.^{[2][4][verification needed]}

In 1974 he joined the newly foundedCentre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.^[2][3]

Bagchi specialised in the history of Indian banking and finance, and acted as official historian of theState Bank of India until 1997.^[5]

After retiring in 2001 asReserve Bank of India Chair Professor from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, he became the founder-director of theInstitute of Development Studies, Kolkata.^[5]

Bagchi died on 28 November 2024.^[2][3]

In 2005, Bagchi was awarded thePadma Shri.^[6]

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

The books he authored included:^[7]

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

• 2013 Transformation and Development: The Political Economy of Transition in China and India (with Anthony P. D'Costa) New Delhi: Oxford University Press
• 2007Capture and Exclude: Developing Economies and the Poor in Global Finance (with Gary A. Dymski) New Delhi: Tulika
• 2005Webs of History: Information, Communication and Technology from Early to Post-Colonial India (with D. Sinha and B. Bagchi), New Delhi: Manohar
• 2005Maladies, Preventives, and Curatives: Debates in Public Health in India (with K. Soman), New Delhi: Tulika
• 2003Economy and the Quality of Life: Essays in Memory of Ashok Rudra (with M. Chattopadhyay and R. Khasnabis), Kolkata: Dasgupta & Co.
• 2002Money and Credit in Indian History since Early Medieval Times, New Delhi: Tulika
• 1999Multiculturalism, Liberalism and Democracy (with R. Bhargava and R. Sudarshan), Oxford University Press
• 1999Economy and Organization: Indian Institutions under the Neoliberal Regime, Sage Publications
• 1995Democracy and Development: Proceedings of the IEA Conference Held in Barcelona, Spain, Palgrave Macmillan
• 1995New Technology and the Workers’ Response: Microelectronics, Labour and Society, Sage Publications
• 1988Economy, Society and Polity: Essays in the Political Economy of Indian Planning in Honour of ProfessorBhabatosh Datta, Oxford University Press

• Bagchi, Amiya Kumar (2009), "The capability approach and the political economy of human development", inKanbur, 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.

• "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.
• Murali, D. (17 July 2010)."Property right subjugation by British land tax".Business Line.Archived from the original on 14 April 2024.

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