Calcutta Diary

Author:

Ashok Mitra

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Publisher

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Publication Year 2014
ISBN-13

9789384439224

ISBN-10 9789384439224
Binding

Paperback

Number of Pages 338 Pages
Language (English)
Weight (grms) 445

The essays in Calcutta Diary first appeared in the Economic and Political Weekly during the infamous 21-month Emergency imposed in India between June 1975 and March 1977. Interestingly, Ashok Mitra had worked with former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who had imposed the Emergency. The essays recount aspects of a unique and particularly difficult phase in contemporary Indian history. This new edition includes a foreword by eminent social scientist, Partha Chatterjee, and a concluding commentary by the celebrated historian of South Asia, Ranajit Guha. It offers an unparalleled portrait of Calcutta (now Kolkata) in all its grime and glory in a way few writers have been able to capture life and longing in this infuriatingly memorable metropolis in eastern India. Ashok Mitra has been Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India and Chairman of the Indian Agricultural Prices Commission. He is the author of The Share of Wages in National Income, has edited a volume of essays, Economic Theory and Planning, and his most recent book is Terms of Trade and Class Relations.

Ashok Mitra

Ashok Mitra studied at the University of Dhaka and Banaras Hindu University, and has a doctorate from the Netherlands School of Economics. He taught at different times in a number of Indian universities as well as at both the Indian Statistical Institute and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He has been on the faculty of the Economic Development Institute, Washington, DC and professorial fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. He has held a number of important official positions in India, including as chairman of the Agricultural Prices Commission and chief economic adviser to the Government of India. He was the first finance minister of the Left Front government in West Bengal and later, a member of the Rajya Sabha. Ashok Mitra has written extensively in both English and Bengali, and received the Sahitya Akademi award for his contributions to Bengali literature. His widely read column, Calcutta Diary , was carried in the Economic and Political Weekly for over a quarter of a century.

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