Pranab bardhan autobiography in five short

By the end of the 1960s, a militant movement, defying the two main communist parties, had started.

Pranab Bardhan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of California, Berkeley.

Pranab Bardhan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of California, Berkeley.

Pranab Bardhan (born 11 September in Calcutta) is an Indian economist who has taught and worked in the United States since

Pranab K. Bardhan: an autobiography of professional life.

In this readily accessible book Bardhan examines the political and social constraints on Indian development.

Economist Pranab Bardhan's autobiographical account focuses on his intellectual growth alongside influential economists and ideas.

Because of its origin in an armed peasant revolt in an area in north Bengal called Naxalbari, such movements are often called “Naxalite” both in Bengal and the rest of India. The usual description of the rural economy by students and intellectuals who were sympathetic to this movement largely followed the above-described “semi-feudal” debt bondage line.

The leaders of the movement declared “the decade of the 70s as the decade of liberation”.

In rural areas, some land grabbing and assassinations of “class enemies” were carried out, and urban areas saw a great deal of terror and selective, though sometimes purposeless, killings.

The government of the day then launched an operation of brutal repression, imprisonment, torture and killing. (I joined Ashok Rudra in donating money for the legal