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'''Bhabatosh Datta''' (21 February 1911 – 11 January 1997) was a noted Indian economist, academic and writer. He taught at [[Chittagong College]] and later became Professor of Economics, [[Presidency College, Kolkata]], where he later [[:wikt:Emeritus|Emeritus]] Professor.<ref name="Bhabatosh Datta">{{cite journal | title=Bhabatosh Datta | author=Amiya Kumar Bagchi | journal=Economic and Political Weekly |date=April 1997 | volume=32 | issue=17 | pages=872–875|jstor = 4405331}}</ref>

In 1990, he was awarded the [[Padma Vibhushan]], the second highest civilian award, by [[Government of India]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Padma Awards Directory (1954–2007) |publisher=[[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs]] |date=30 May 2007 |url=http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/PadmaAwards1954-2007.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410024701/http://www.mha.nic.in/pdfs/PadmaAwards1954-2007.pdf |archive-date=10 April 2009 }}</ref>

==Early life and background==
Datta was born in [[Patna]], Bihar to Hemendra Kishore Datta and Jogmaya Datta. At the time, his father was a professor of Chemistry at [[Bihar National College]], Patna. Thereafter, he did his schooling at various places, including [[Daulatpur Thana, Khulna|
Daulatpur]] in [[Khulna district]], [[Mymensingh]] followed by [[Dhaka]], now in Bangladesh. At his Dhaka school, he edited the school magazine along with fellow student Buddhadeb Bose, who went on to become a noted poet. He completed his schooling from [[Jagannath College]] Dhaka, and went on to earn B.A. (Hons.) in Economics and Political Science and M.A. Economics from [[Presidency College, Kolkata]].<ref name="Bhabatosh Datta" />

==Career==
He started his career by working briefly at [[Chittagong College]], and [[Burdwan Raj College]], ultimately his received an appointment at Ripon College, Kolkata, later known as [[Surendranath College]]. Subsequently, he worked at Islamia College in Kolkata, later renamed [[Maulana Azad College]]. In 1948, he went to England on a study leave to submit his doctoral dissertation at [[London School of Economics]] after only two years. His dissertation was published in Calcutta as ''The Economics of Industrialization'' (1952). After his returned in 1952, he joined the [[Presidency College, Kolkata]], now [[Presidency University, Kolkata|Presidency University]] as Professor of Economics. The following year, he joined IMF as chief of South Asia division, however he returned to India in 1956, and rejoined Presidency College, where he continued to work till his retirement in 1962 as Head of the Department. Thereafter, he remained Emeritus Professor at the college, and started working in state education ministry, as he became Director of Public Instruction, Department of General Education and in 1965, Secretary of Education, [[Government of West Bengal]].<ref name="Bhabatosh Datta" /><ref>{{cite web | title =Economics: History of the Department|publisher= Presidency University| url = http://presiuniv.ac.in/web/history_economics.php| access-date = 19 February 2014 }}</ref>

He also remained a member of [[The Fourth Finance Commission of India|Fourth Finance Commission of India]] formed in 1964,<ref>{{cite web | title = Fourth Finance Commission|publisher=Finance Commission, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India | url = http://fincomindia.nic.in/writereaddata/html_en_files/oldcommission_html/members/fourthmemcom.htm| access-date = 19 February 2014 }}</ref> and also remained a member of the first working committee of [[Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi]], Kolkata.

==Personal life==
He married Amala Basu in 1939, she died in 1989.<ref name="Bhabatosh Datta" />

==Bibliography==
*{{cite book|author=Bhabatosh Datta|title=The evolution of economic thinking in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9yM7AAAAMAAJ|year=1962|publisher=Federation Hall Society}}
*{{cite book|author=Bhabatosh Datta|title=Economic Development and Exports: A Study of the Impact of Indian Economic Development on Exports|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GYkvAAAAMAAJ|year=1962|publisher=World Press}}
*{{cite book|author=Bhabatosh Datta|title=Essays in plan economics: a commentary on Indian experience|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qXs7AAAAMAAJ|year=1963|publisher=World Press}}
*{{cite book|author=Bhabatosh Datta|title=Economics of Industrialisation: A Study of the Basic Problems of an Underdeveloped Economy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vD2QCmm53XQC|year=1966|publisher=World Press}}
*{{cite book|author1=India, Fact Finding Committee on Newspaper Economics|author2=Bhabatosh Datta|title=Report of the Fact Finding Committee on Newspaper Economics: Submitted to the Government of India, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, New Delhi, January, 1975|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=42IcAAAAMAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Controller of Publications}}
*{{cite book|author=Bhabatosh Datta|title=Indian economic thought: twentieth century perspectives, 1900–1950|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uf8JAQAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill|isbn=9780070963900}}
*{{cite book|author1=Bhabatosh Datta|author2=Dipak Banerjee|title=Essays in economic analysis and policy: a tribute to Bhabatosh Datta|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ItMsAAAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195627343}}
*{{cite book|author=Bhabatosh Datta|title=Indian Planning at the Crossroads|url=https://archive.org/details/indianplanningat00datt|url-access=registration|year=1992|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-562958-3}}
*{{cite book|author=Amiya Kumar Bagchi|author-link=Amiya Kumar Bagchi|title=Economy, society, and polity: essays in the political economy of Indian planning in honour of Professor Bhabatosh Datta|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0N7sAAAAMAAJ|year= 1988|publisher=Published for Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta [by] Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195620597}}

== References ==
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==External links==
* {{cite web
| title = Bhabatosh Datta articles|publisher= [[Economic and Political Weekly]]| url = http://www.epw.in/authors/bhabatosh-datta?page=2}}

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