2009 Social Sciences Jury
Jury Chair
Prof. Amartya Sen
Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University
He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. His other awards include the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honor awarded by the President of India; the Senator Giovanni Agnelli International Prize in Ethics; the Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Award; the Edinburgh Medal; the Brazilian Ordem do Merito Cientifico (Grã-Cruz); the Presidency of the Italian Republic Medal; the Eisenhower Medal; Honorary Companion of Honour (U.K.), and the George C. Marshall Award.
Jurors
Avinash Dixit
Avinash Dixit - Sherrerd University Professor of Economics at Princeton University
Prof. Dixit was President of the Econometric Society in 2001, and of the American Economic Association in 2008. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2005, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2006. He was educated at St. Xavier’s College (Bombay), Corpus Christi College (Cambridge) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and professor at the University of Warwick, before joining Princeton in 1981. He has held visiting professorships at MIT, and visiting scholar positions at the International Monetary Fund, the London School of Economics, the Institute for International Economic Studies (Stockholm), and the Russell Sage Foundation.
Pranab Bardhan
Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley
Prof. Bardhan has done theoretical and field studies research on rural institutions in poor countries, on political economy of development policies, and on international trade. A Cambridge University PhD, he has been at Berkeley since 1977, following teaching appointments at MIT, Indian Statistical Institute, and the Delhi School of Economics. He was the chief editor of the Journal of Development Economics for 1985-2003, and was the co-chair of the MacArthur Foundation International Research Network on "Inequality and Economic Performance," which conducted research on the interaction of economic equality and efficiency in both rich and poor countries . Bardhan is a frequent keynote speaker at international conferences. In recent years, he has given such keynote and inaugural addresses in Australia, China, India,Italy, South Africa, Turkey, U.K., and USA. He is the author of 12 books and more than 150 articles, and the editor of 12 other books. His latest book is "Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: A Comparative Economic Assessment of the Rise of China and India", to be published by Princeton University Press.
Sugata Bose
Gardiner Professor of History and Director of the South Asia Initiative at Harvard University
Prof. Bose was educated at Presidency College, Calcutta and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge. He has authored numerous scholarly articles and books on modern economic, social and political history. His books include Agrarian Bengal: Economy, Social Structure and Politics (1986), South Asia and World Capitalism (1990), Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital (1993), Credit, Markets and the Agrarian Economy of Colonial India (1994), Nationalism, Democracy and Development (1997), Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (1998, 2004), and A Hundred Horizons: the Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire (2006). Prof. Bose served as Director of Graduate Studies in History at Harvard and is the founding Director of Harvard’s South Asia Initiative. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and delivered the G.M. Trevelyan Lecture at the University of Cambridge. During 2008 he gave the Rajendranath Das Lecture at Berkeley, the keynote lecture at the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale, and the Gustav Pollak Lecture at Harvard’s Kennedy School.
Prof. Tapan Raychaudhuri
Emeritus Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Professor Raychaudhuri retired as Professor of Indian History and Civilization, University of Oxford. He was educated at Calcutta and Oxford and received D.Phil. from the University of Calcutta and Oxford and D.Litt from Oxford. The Universities of Burdwan and Calcutta conferred on him the D.Litt (honouris causa). Professor Raychaudhuri has held a number of academic appointments. He taught in the Universities of Calcutta and Delhi; was Professor of History, Delhi University; Professor of Economic History, Delhi School of Economics; Director, Delhi School of Economics. He was also Deputy Director and Acting Director in the National Archives of India, Delhi. Professor Raychaudhuri held visiting professorship at Berkley, Pennsylvania, Harvard, Collegio de Maxico, Ecole Pratique de Hautes Etudes, Paris, Sydney and Perth, among others. He was also visiting fellow to Woodrow Wilson Centre, Washington D.C. and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Professor Raychaudhuri's memoir is presently being serialized in the fortnightly vernacular magazine 'Desh'.
Prof. Christopher Alan Bayly
Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge
Prof. Bayly, FBA, is a British historian specializing in Indian, British Imperial, and Global History. He obtained his BA, MA, and DPhil (1970) degrees from the University of Oxford. Prof. Bayly is also a trustee of the British Museum. In 2004 he was awarded the prestigious Wolfson History Prize for his distinguished contributions to the discipline. He was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours List of 2007 for his services to History. In 2007, he succeeded Professor Sir John Baker as President of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. More recently, Prof. Bayly also became the Director of Cambridge's Centre of South Asian Studies. His extensive studies in modern India and personal interest in Indian history have been a key factor in strengthening the historic relationship between the University and India.
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