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Prof. Amartya Sen Profile, Early Life, Education, Career in Education, Books

Professor Amartya Sen Profile, Early Life, Education, Career in Education, Books, Publications

One of India's greatest pioneers in social theories, Amartya Sen is the name who revolutionized the image of Indian society with his socio-economic policies.

Amartya Sen, born November 3, 1933, Santiniketan in a Hindu Brahmin Bengali family in Santiniketan, West Bengal, although his ancestral roots can be traced back to Dhaka, the present day capital city of Bangladesh.

In 1941, he was enrolled at the St Gregory's School, Dhaka and after the partition of India, his family moved to India, where he attended the Visva-Bharati University School.

In 1953, he graduated from Presidency College, Kolkata with a First Class Honours in B.A Economics. That year, he attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he earned another B.A.

In 1956, at the age of 23, he was appointed as the Professor and head of the Economics Department at the Jadavpur University, Calcutta. After two years, he went back to Cambridge University to pursue his PhD.

In 1970, his first book titled ‘Collective Choice and Social Welfare’, which is considered as one of his most influential monographs that addressed the issues of basic welfare, justice, equality and individual rights.

Published in the year 1973, his book ‘On Economic Inequality’, was a study of the theory of welfare economics in relation to the study of economic inequality.