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Other name | DSE |
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| Motto | तमसो मा ज्योतिर् गमय |
Motto in English | Lead us from darkness to light |
| Type | Higher Educational Institution |
| Established | 1949; 77 years ago (1949) |
| Director | Ram Singh |
| Location | , |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | University of Delhi |
| Website | www |
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Delhi School of Economics (DSE), popularly referred to asD School, is an institution of higher learning within theDelhi University.[1][2] The Delhi School of Economics is situated in University of Delhi'sNorth Campus in Maurice Nagar.[3] Established in 1949,[4] the campus of the Delhi School of Economics houses the University of Delhi's departments ofEconomics,Sociology,Geography andCommerce, as well as the Ratan Tata Library. Out of the four academic departments, the Departments of Economics, Sociology and Geography come under the Faculty of Social Sciences, while the Department of Commerce comes under the Faculty of Commerce and Business Studies.[4]
Many of its former faculty members and alumni have gone ahead to become economists, social scientists, writers, heads of states and journalists. It presently offers multiple post graduate and doctoral level programmes in a wide range of disciplines.
The Delhi School of Economics campus is situated in University of Delhi's North Campus in Maurice Nagar.[5] It is surrounded by other institutions and constituent colleges of the University of Delhi, such asRamjas College, TheFaculty of Management Studies,St. Stephen's College, KMC andHindu College. Three constituent departments of the Faculty of Social Sciences - Economics, Sociology and Geography- lie within the Delhi School of Economics campus.[6] It additionally also houses the Department of Commerce,[7] which is a part of the Faculty of Commerce and Business Studies, and the Ratan Tata Library.[8]
Prof. Ram Singh, director of the Institute of eminence, Delhi School of Economics has been recently appointed to theMonetary Policy Committee (MPC) ofReserve Bank of India, chaired by the GovernorSanjay Malhotra.[9]
Among the faculty at the department of economics have been the likes of V.K.R.V. Rao,B.N. Ganguly andK.N. Raj (all three of whom went on to serve as vice-chancellors at theUniversity of Delhi),Amartya Sen (Nobel Laureate),Manmohan Singh (the former Indian Prime Minister and also the key architect of the economic reforms since 1991), Sukhomoy Chakravarty (who was chief economic advisor),Jagdish Bhagwati,Kaushik Basu,Arjun Kumar Sengupta, Partha Sen,Raj Krishna, Syed Mohammad Ali, the economic historianTapan Raychaudhuri and others.[10]
The department has been associated with three important journals over the years. It publishes theIndian Economic Review, several faculty members edit theIndian Economic and Social History Review, and for many years it housed theJournal of Quantitative Economics.[11]
Prof. Rohini Somanathan is currently the head of the department.[12]
The department currently offers a MA and a PhD in Economics.
Professor V.K.R.V. Rao, the university's vice-chancellor at the time, took the initiative to create the Department of Geography in October 1959. George Kuriyan, a renowned geographer, was the first professor and the founder of the department. He was followed in 1966 by V.L.S. Prakasa Rao, who served as the department's head until 1973. During this period, the department acquired a distinctive identity in India and abroad. In 1976, the department was renamed as the Department of Geography owing to the widening of scope of teaching and research activity in not only human, but also physical aspects of Geography. The Faculty members undertake research projects from various agencies including University Grants Commission, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Indo-Canadian Shastri Institute and Ministries of Government of India, which include Indian Space Research Organization, Department of Science and Technology and the Planning Commission.[13][14]
Prof. Anindita Data is currently serving Head of the department, making history as the first female to hold a full term in this role. She is also the first South Asian women to be elected for Vice President, International Geographical Union (IGU).[15][16]
The department currently offers a MA and PhD in Geography.
In 2010, Professor Nandini Sundar from the department, won the Infosys prize in the field of social anthropology.[17] Prof. Anuja Aggarwal is serving the current head for the department.[18]
The Ratan Tata Library, popularly referred to as RTL, is situated in the Delhi School of Economics campus.[19]
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