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6 unusual facts about Delhi School of Economics


Ajay Chhibber

Chhibber received his training as an economist at Stanford University, USA (PhD, 1983), and at Delhi School of Economics, India (MA, 1976).

Amit Bando

He completed his graduate and post-graduate studies in Economics and Statistics at the University of Minnesota, Delhi School of Economics and St. Stephen's College, Delhi.

Sat Parashar

Parashar holds an M.Com from Delhi School of Economics (1971) and obtained his PhD from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi (1981).

Shivnath Thukral

He possesses a masters degree in economics from the Delhi School of Economics.

Sujatha Singh

She is an alumnus of the Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi and the Delhi School of Economics from where she graduated in economics.

Surendra Jain

He graduated from the Shri Ram College of commerce in New Delhi and obtained a post graduate degree from the Delhi School of Economics.


Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta on July 11, 1956 in a Bengali Hindu family, to Lieutenant Colonel Shailendra Chandra Ghosh, a retired officer of the pre-independence Indian Army, and was educated at The Doon School; St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Delhi University, India; the Delhi School of Economics and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he was awarded a D. Phil. in social anthropology under the supervision of Peter Lienhardt.

Omkar Goswami

Omkar Goswami holds a Master's in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University in 1978; and in 1982 he received the doctor of philosophy in Economics from Oxford University for the thesis: "The jute economy of Bengal, 1900-1947: unequal interaction between the industrial, trading and agricultural sectors" under supervision of Tapan Raychaudhuri, the eminent Indian historian.


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