Amiya Kumar Bagchi

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

Life and career Bagchi earned his masters in economics at Presidency College, Kolkata, and his PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1963. His teaching career began at Presidency College, followed by a stint in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge in the 1960s, where he was a Fellow of Jesus College. He resigned his post in 1969 to return to Presidency College.

In 1974 he joined the newly founded Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

After retiring in 2001 as Reserve Bank of India Chair Professor from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, he became the founder-director of the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata.