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100			_aSen, Amartya
245			_aHome in the world : a memoir
260			_bPenguin Books, _c2022 _aNew Delhi :
300			_axv, 463 p.; _c25 cm
365			_b699.00 _cINR _d1.00
520			_aWhere is 'home'? For Amartya Sen home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh where he grew up, the village of Santiniketan where he was raised by his grandparents as much as by his parents, Calcutta where he first studied economics and was active in student movements, and Trinity College, Cambridge, to which he came aged nineteen. Sen brilliantly recreates the atmosphere in each of these. Central to his formation was the intellectually liberating school in Santiniketan founded by Rabindranath Tagore (who gave him his name Amartya) and enticing conversations in the famous Coffee House on College Street in Calcutta. As an undergraduate at Cambridge, he engaged with many of the leading figures of the day. This is a book of ideas - especially Marx, Keynes and Arrow - as much as of people and places. In one memorable chapter, Sen evokes 'the rivers of Bengal' along which he travelled with his parents between Dhaka and their ancestral villages. The historic culture of Bengal is wonderfully explored, as is the political inflaming of Hindu-Muslim hostility and the resistance to it. In 1943, Sen witnessed the Bengal famine and its disastrous development. Some of Sen's family were imprisoned for their opposition to British rule: not surprisingly, the relationship between Britain and India is another main theme of the book. Forty-five years after he first arrived at 'the Gates of Trinity', one of Britain's greatest intellectual foundations, Sen became its Master.
650			_aAutobiographies
650			_aEconomists
650			_aNobel laureate
650			_aCambridge
650			_a Bangladesh,Dhaka
650			_aBengal
650			_aHealth care/medicine
650			_aHinduism
650			_aInequality
650			_aIslam
650			_aKeynesian economics
650			_a Left-wing politics
650			_aMarxist thinking
650			_a Nationalism
650			_a Poverty
650			_aFamines
650			_aReligion
650			_aSocial choice theory
650			_a Welfare economics
650			_a Santiniketan
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