Amiya Kumar Bagchi
Biographic Data
| ID | 173288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amiya Kumar Bagchi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amiya Kumar |
| FAMILY NAME | Bagchi |
| SIGNATURE | BAGCHI A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Intellectual Legacy of an Early Development Economist
Institutional and Behavioral Economics, International Development, Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession
Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian, The Privatization of Everything
The rise of Indian business in the global context in the twentieth century
The focus of this special edition is on Indian business within its wider global context. Indian business was not immune to influences from the wider world. There is a considerable body of literature that establishes the history of the global interconnectedness of the Indian economy in the 18th and 19th centuries. This special edition of Business History seeks to build on this body of work to locate the development of Indian business in the wider …
Samir Amin
This article begins with Samir Amin's family background to understand his development as a fiercely committed Marxist who throughout his life was dedicated to changing the world. All the disappointments and defeats of the cause he espoused only sharpened his determination. The article reviews Amin's professional career in economic planning and some of the key concepts that he elaborated in the interest of social change-including eurocentrism, the…
Colonialist primitive accumulation
The concept of primitive accumulation was formulated by Marx in his magnum opus, Capital, Volume I. Actually, it should have been translated as “primary accumulation” as Marx probably intended. Because there is nothing primitive about the capitalists' accumulation process, it goes on so long as capitalism lasts. When capitalism was making its debut, especially in relatively large states such as England, the Netherlands, and France, primary accumu…
On Colonialism and the Indian Economy
Marxism
The Arithmetic of Resource-intensive Growth, Keynesian Monetary Management, and Egalitarian Green Growth
Some Fundamental Problems Afflicting the Worlds Economy and Polity, and how to go about Redressing them
Indian Business History
Mobility
Immigrants, Morality and Neoliberalism
This article critiques the liberal and state-centred view of morality and governance as applied to immigrants. It argues that the alternative perspective provided by some moral philosophers and political theorists can be combined with analysis of the current global economic and political order to outline a framework for protecting the welfare and human rights of the immigrants. It also argues that this framework brings out the commonality of inte…
China-India-Russia
At different stages of their history, leaders of China, India and Russia, the most prominent constituents of the Eurasian landmass and home to one-third of the human population of the world, have formulated the aim of breaking out of the ‘backward’ state of their respective countries as a major goal of their movements, their strategies and their policies. Almost in all cases, such a state of backwardness has been perceived in relation to the ‘adv…
The Parameters of Resistance
As imperialism spirals out of control, and as the manifestations of its wickedness penetrate every pore of human existence everywhere, the resistance against it also has emerged from every cell of social and political organization, taking many diverse forms that defy easy encapsulation. As the forms of protest and resistance have multiplied, the problem of choosing an appropriate political strategy has become that much more difficult. Is the resi…
Governance—National, corporate and international
‘Governance’ has become a buzzword even as corporate and international governance seems to be fast eroding in the citadels from which the necessity of good governance as a condition of economic dev
The Common Minimum Programme
Rethinking Federalism
India's federalism during the last 50 years had two phases: three decades of centralized federalism followed by cooperative and competitive federalism. Unitary features of India's Constitution and planned development led to strong central dominance in the first phase, with the states in a subordinate position. The momentum of impressive initial growth did not last. The late 1970s saw a weakened Congress party, the emergence of coalition politics,…
Capital and Labour Redefined
Governance in East and Southeast Asia
The Past and the Future of the Developmental State
Like most human institutions the family, the village, the city, the state, customs, laws, the nation the developmental state was born longbefore anybody thought of naming it. There are debates about when it was born, whether all developmental states (as they are usually characterized)are properly labeled, and whether there have been developmental states overlooked literature. In this paper, it will be claimed, inter alia, that indeed there were d…
Neoliberal Economic Reforms and Workers of the Third World at the End of the Second Millennium of the Christian Era
This paper places the current conditions of workers of the Third World in the context of the processes of social reproduction of labour under capitalism. It critiques the idea that the history of capitalism has been a uniformly liberatory experience and takes the view that many changes in the workers' situation under capitalism can be regarded as transformations in bondage. It also criticises the view that deregulation of labour markets per se ca…
Dualism and Dialectics in the Historiography of Labor
Research Article| May 01 1999 Dualism and Dialectics in the Historiography of Labor Amiya Kumar Bagchi Amiya Kumar Bagchi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (1): 106–121. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-19-1-106 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Amiya Kumar Bagchi; Dualism and Dialectics …
New Technology and the Workers' Response
Introduction - Amiya Kumar Bagchi Coping with Technological Change Notes on Dynamic Flexibility, Cooperation and Economic Efficiency - Jose Ricardo Tauile Nation, Distribution and Machinery - Partha Sarathi Banerjee Managing and Organizing for Advanced Manufacturing Technology - Per Lindberg Technology Import and Skill Development in a Microelectronics-Based Industry - Sunil Mani The Case of India's Electronic Switching Systems Output Growth, Tec…
Multiculturalism, liberalism, and democracy
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 1. INTRODUCING MULTICULTURALISM (RAJEEV BHARGAVA) 2. IDENTITY AND INTEGRITY (ALAN MONTEFIORE) 3. EXPENSIVE TASTES AND MULTICULTURALISM (G.A. COHEN) 4. GOVERNANCE OF MULTICULTURAL POLITIES: LIMITS OF THE RULE OF LAW (R. SUDARSHAN) 5. FRENCH REPUBLICANISM AND THICK MULTICULTURALISM (CATHERINE AUDARD) 6. DEMOCRATIC EXCLUSION (AND ITS REMEDIES?) (CHARLES TAYLOR) 7. SECULAR LIBERALISM AND THE MORAL PSYCHOLOGY OF IDENTITY (AKEEL BI…
Nineteenth century imperialism and structural transformation in colonized countries
The advent of industrialization in Europe in the eighteenth century transformed the economic structures of the early industrializers, so that secondary industry and services came to provide increasingly larger proportions of output and employment. As an integral part of this process of industrialization, the pioneering capitalist countries conquered territories in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, ushering in the era of imperialism. …
The Political Economy of Underdevelopment
Journal Article The Political Economy of Underdevelopment Get access The Political Economy of Underdevelopment. By AMIYA KUMAR BAGCHI. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. vii + 280. £20.00.) Keith Griffin Keith Griffin Magdalen College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 93, Issue 370, 1 June 1983, Pages 434–436, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232812 Published: 01 J…
Rethinking Federalism
India's federalism during the last 50 years had two phases: three decades of centralized federalism followed by cooperative and competitive federalism. Unitary features of India's Constitution and planned development led to strong central dominance in the first phase, with the states in a subordinate position. The momentum of impressive initial growth did not last. The late 1970s saw a weakened Congress party, the emergence of coalition politics,…
The Past and the Future of the Developmental State
Like most human institutions the family, the village, the city, the state, customs, laws, the nation the developmental state was born longbefore anybody thought of naming it. There are debates about when it was born, whether all developmental states (as they are usually characterized)are properly labeled, and whether there have been developmental states overlooked literature. In this paper, it will be claimed, inter alia, that indeed there were d…
Change and Choice in Indian Industry
Land tax, property rights and peasant insecurity in colonial India
The question of private property in land in the Eastern lands including India has been debated in Europe at least since the seventeenth century. It has been claimed that the British rulers had, for the first time, created private property in land and thereby conferred security on the owners. This claim is examined by analysing actually how land laws and land tax in the Bombay Deccan districts operated in the nineteenth century. The intimate relat…
Immigrants, Morality and Neoliberalism
This article critiques the liberal and state-centred view of morality and governance as applied to immigrants. It argues that the alternative perspective provided by some moral philosophers and political theorists can be combined with analysis of the current global economic and political order to outline a framework for protecting the welfare and human rights of the immigrants. It also argues that this framework brings out the commonality of inte…
Private Investment in India 1900-1939
Journal Article Bagchi (A. K.). Private Investment in India 1900–1939 Get access Private Investment in India 1900-1939. Cambridge South Asian Studies 10. By Amiya Kumar Bagchi. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. xi + 482. £6.40.) Dudley Jackson Dudley Jackson Department of Applied Economics and St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 82…
The Impact of Price Movements on Areas Under Selected Crops in India, 1900-39
Journal Article The Impact of Price Movements on Areas Under Selected Crops in India, 1900-39 Get access The Impact of Price Movements on Areas under Selected Crops in India, 1900–39. By D. Narain. (London: Cambridge University Press, 1965. Pp. ix + 234. 45s.) A. K. Bagchi A. K. Bagchi Magdalene College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 76, Issue 302, 1 June 1966, Page…
Transition from Indian to British Indian Systems of Money and Banking 1800-1850
In 1800, British India was emphatically a multi-region economy, with political and physical boundaries separating the different parts. The British were on the eve of bringing the whole of India (except Sind and the kingdom of Ranjit Singh in the North-West) under their political control. But political control did not at once bring a real unification of currency or banking that serviced long-distance or external trade, let alone the network of cas…
Anglo‐Indian banking in British India
Capital and Labour Redefined
Globalising India
Samir Amin
This article begins with Samir Amin's family background to understand his development as a fiercely committed Marxist who throughout his life was dedicated to changing the world. All the disappointments and defeats of the cause he espoused only sharpened his determination. The article reviews Amin's professional career in economic planning and some of the key concepts that he elaborated in the interest of social change-including eurocentrism, the…
China-India-Russia
At different stages of their history, leaders of China, India and Russia, the most prominent constituents of the Eurasian landmass and home to one-third of the human population of the world, have formulated the aim of breaking out of the ‘backward’ state of their respective countries as a major goal of their movements, their strategies and their policies. Almost in all cases, such a state of backwardness has been perceived in relation to the ‘adv…
The Common Minimum Programme
Governance in East and Southeast Asia
The balance between industry and agriculture in economic development
The Ambiguity of Progress
Towards a Political Economy of Planning in India
Journal Article TOWARDS A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PLANNING IN INDIA Get access AMIYA KUMAR BAGCHI AMIYA KUMAR BAGCHI Centre for Studies in Social SciencesCalcutta Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contributions to Political Economy, Volume 3, Issue 1, March 1984, Pages 15–38, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cpe.a035677 Published: 01 March 1984
Amiya Bagchi and the Political Economy of Underdevelopment
The Great Depression and the Third World with special reference to India
During the Great Depression of 1873-96 the only real industrialized countries were Great Britain and the Netherlands. While the share of Britain in the imports of Canada declined from 49.9% to 33% between 1867-71 and 1892-6 the share in the imports of India increased between the 2 dates from 69.2% to 71.9%. While Britains share in Canadian exports increased from 31.4% to 54.9% her share in Indian exports declined from 52.5% to 33.2%. Britains pos…
The Impact of Price Movements on Areas Under Selected Crops in India, 1900-39
Journal Article The Impact of Price Movements on Areas Under Selected Crops in India, 1900-39 Get access The Impact of Price Movements on Areas under Selected Crops in India, 1900–39. By D. Narain. (London: Cambridge University Press, 1965. Pp. ix + 234. 45s.) A. K. Bagchi A. K. Bagchi Magdalene College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 76, Issue 302, 1 June 1966, Page…
Private Investment in India 1900–1939
This book deals with the history of private investment in India and its determinants during the period 1900-1939. It develops a simple theoretical framework in its first part and tries to isolate the influence on private investment in India of factor supplies, as against demand conditions. In the second part, all the major manufacturing industries of the period are studied in detail. Most of the analytical apparatus used is developed from orthodo…
India
Private Investment in India 1900-1939
Journal Article Bagchi (A. K.). Private Investment in India 1900–1939 Get access Private Investment in India 1900-1939. Cambridge South Asian Studies 10. By Amiya Kumar Bagchi. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Pp. xi + 482. £6.40.) Dudley Jackson Dudley Jackson Department of Applied Economics and St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 82…
De‐industrialization in India in the nineteenth century
The ‘naive’ idea current among many of the older nationalists of the Third World regarding the de‐industrializing effect of western capitalism on their countries is confirmed by the analysis of occupational data relating to the State of Bihar in India. Similar evidence is also available for Egypt and China. If we shift from models of what can ideally happen under capitalism in its international aspects and look at what actually happened until, sa…
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The Great Depression and the Third World with special reference to India
During the Great Depression of 1873-96 the only real industrialized countries were Great Britain and the Netherlands. While the share of Britain in the imports of Canada declined from 49.9% to 33% between 1867-71 and 1892-6 the share in the imports of India increased between the 2 dates from 69.2% to 71.9%. While Britains share in Canadian exports increased from 31.4% to 54.9% her share in Indian exports declined from 52.5% to 33.2%. Britains pos…
Inventiveness in Society
Change and Choice in Indian Industry
Public Expenditure and Indian Development Policy, 1960-1970
Of the many different ways in which economists have tried to analyse public expenditure, the most relevant to Indian economic development is that which links the level of public expenditure with the rate at which the state can accumulate capital. The abstract theory of this link, however, must be complemented by a historical account of the degree to which a state accumulation policy was understood by Indian policy makers, and of the other (often …
The Political Economy of Underdevelopment
Journal Article The Political Economy of Underdevelopment Get access The Political Economy of Underdevelopment. By AMIYA KUMAR BAGCHI. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Pp. vii + 280. £20.00.) Keith Griffin Keith Griffin Magdalen College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 93, Issue 370, 1 June 1983, Pages 434–436, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232812 Published: 01 J…
The Cambridge Enonomic History of India Vol 2
Towards a Political Economy of Planning in India
Journal Article TOWARDS A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PLANNING IN INDIA Get access AMIYA KUMAR BAGCHI AMIYA KUMAR BAGCHI Centre for Studies in Social SciencesCalcutta Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contributions to Political Economy, Volume 3, Issue 1, March 1984, Pages 15–38, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cpe.a035677 Published: 01 March 1984
Amiya Bagchi and the Political Economy of Underdevelopment
The Political Economy of Underdevelopment
Anglo‐Indian banking in British India
Industrial Policy and the Economy
The Comfortable Fallacies of the 'Bhadralok' Mind
The Ambiguity of Progress
Transition from Indian to British Indian Systems of Money and Banking 1800-1850
In 1800, British India was emphatically a multi-region economy, with political and physical boundaries separating the different parts. The British were on the eve of bringing the whole of India (except Sind and the kingdom of Ranjit Singh in the North-West) under their political control. But political control did not at once bring a real unification of currency or banking that serviced long-distance or external trade, let alone the network of cas…
Economic Growth in the Third World, 1850-1980
The Evolution of the State Bank of India
State Intervention and Industrial Change
Historicizing the Problems of Socialism
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