Delhi School of Economics (DSE), popularly referred to as D School, is a prestigious institution of higher learning within the Delhi University. The Delhi School of Economics is situated in University of Delhi's North Campus in Maurice Nagar. Established in 1949, the campus of the Delhi School of Economics houses the University of Delhi's departments of Economics, Sociology, Geography and Commerce, 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.
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.
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Campus
The Delhi School of Economics campus is situated in University of Delhi's North Campus in Maurice Nagar. It is surrounded by other institutions and constituent colleges of the University of Delhi, such as Ramjas College, The Faculty of Management Studies, St. Stephen's College, KMC and Hindu College. Three constituent departments of the Faculty of Social Sciences - Economics, Sociology and Geography- lie within the Delhi School of Economics campus. It additionally also houses the Department of Commerce, which is a part of the Faculty of Commerce and Business Studies, and the Ratan Tata Library.
Constituents
Department of Economics
Among the faculty at the department of economics have been the likes of V.K.R.V. Rao, B.N. Ganguly and K.N. Raj (all three of whom went on to serve as vice-chancellors at the University 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, Sat Parashar, Kaushik Basu, Arjun Kumar Sengupta, Partha Sen, Raj Krishna, Syed Mohammad Ali, the economic historian Tapan Raychaudhuri and others.
The department has been associated with three important journals over the years. It publishes the Indian Economic Review, several faculty members edit the Indian Economic and Social History Review, and for many years it housed the Journal of Quantitative Economics.
Prof. Rohini Somanathan is currently the head of the department.
The department currently offers a MA and a PhD in economics.
Department of Geography
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.
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).
The department currently offers a MA and PhD in geography.
Department of Sociology
In 2010, Professor Nandini Sundar from the department, won the Infosys prize in the field of social anthropology. Prof. Anuja Aggarwal is serving the current head for the department.
Ratan Tata Library
The Ratan Tata Library, popularly referred to as RTL, is situated in the Delhi School of Economics campus.
Notable people
Notable faculty
Manmohan Singh, former prime minister of India
K. L. Krishna, eminent Indian economist and former director of DSE
Jagdish Bhagwati, professor of economics and law at Columbia University
M.N. Srinivas, Indian sociologist
Kaushik Basu, senior vice president and chief economist at World Bank
Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University
Pranab Bardhan, professor emeritus of economics at University of California, Berkeley
Sukhamoy Chakraborty (1934–1990), noted Indian economist
K.R. Narayanan, 10th president of India
Prasanta Pattanaik, emeritus professor, University of California, Riverside
Andre Beteille, Indian sociologist and Padma Bhushan recipient
Raj Krishna
V. K. R. V. Rao, vice chancellor of Delhi University
Tapan Raychaudhuri
Amartya Sen, Nobel laureate
K. N. Raj
Padma Desai
Suresh Tendulkar
Ashok Mitra
Notable alumni
Isher Judge Ahluwalia, economist
Ravi Batra, Indian-American economist
Anjali Bhardwaj, Indian social activist working on issues of transparency and accountability
Ashwani Mahajan, Indian economist and national convener of Swadeshi Jagran Manch
Dhritiman Chatterjee, actor in Black, Pratidwandi
Prabhu Chawla, editor of India Today
Brahma Chellaney
Parag Kumar Das, human rights activist and Assamese journalist assassinated in 1996
Amitav Ghosh, author
Manisha Girotra, Indian business executive
Subir Gokarn, former deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India
Omkar Goswami, chairman and founder, CERG Advisory
Ramachandra Guha, author, historian and columnist
Ashok Gulati, Indian agricultural economist
Nistula Hebbar, journalist and political correspondent
Anshula Kant, chief financial officer and managing director of the World Bank Group
Ashwani Mahajan, national co-convener of Swadeshi Jagaran Manch (SJM)
Academics
Dilip Abreu, game theorist and professor of economics at New York University
Bina Agarwal, prize-winning development economist and professor of development economics and environment at the Global Development Institute at The University of Manchester
Arindam Banik, Associated Cement Companies Chair Professor at International Management Institute, editor, Global Business Review, former director of IMI Kolkata
Amitava Bose
Maitreesh Ghatak, professor of economics, LSE
Sayantan Ghosal, Adam Smith Chair in Political Economy, University of Glasgow
Gita Gopinath, professor of economics, Harvard University and deputy managing director of the IMF
Reetika Khera, one of India's leading development economists
Shailendra Raj Mehta, president and director of MICA
Nadeem Naqvi
Prasanta K. Pattanaik, professor of economics, University of California, Riverside, US
Rajan Saxena, management expert, Padma Shri awardee
Arunava Sen, professor of economics at Indian Statistical Institute
Gita Sen, adjunct professor at Harvard University and professor emeritus at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; feminist scholar and specialist in international population policy
Government and administration
Pulok Chatterji, 11th Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India
Bibek Debroy, chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM)
Ruchira Kamboj, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to UNESCO Paris
Pramod Kumar Misra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India
Poonam Gupta (Economist), deputy governor of Reserve Bank of India
Ashok Mitra, former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India
Vinay Sheel Oberoi, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to UNESCO
Iswar Prasanna Hazarika, former member of the Lok Sabha, director of NTPC, MMTC etc.
Vinod Rai, 11th Comptroller and Auditor General of India
Pankaj Saran, Deputy National Security Adviser of India
N. K. Singh, chairman of 15th Finance Commission
Sujatha Singh, former foreign secretary of India
Pradeep Kumar Sinha, IAS, principal advisor to the prime minister of India
Ashok Lahiri, economist and 4th vice chairman of the NITI Aayog.