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Ashok Mitra was born on 10 April, 1928 in Dacca, East Bengal(Now Bangladesh), British Raj, is an Indian economist and Marxist politician. Discover Ashok Mitra's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

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Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 10 April, 1928
Birthday 10 April
Birthplace Dacca, East Bengal(Now Bangladesh), British Raj
Date of death 1 May, 2018
Died Place Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Nationality Bangladesh

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1928

Ashok Mitra (10 April 1928 – 1 May 2018) was an Indian economist and Marxist politician.

He was a chief economic adviser to the Government of India and later became finance minister of West Bengal and a member of the Rajya Sabha.

1947

After completing his graduation from the University of Dacca, he came to India following the partition of India in 1947.

Although he attended postgraduate classes in economics at the University of Calcutta, he was refused admission there.

He moved to Banaras Hindu University where he earned an M.A. in economics.

1950

He joined the newly established Delhi School of Economics in the early 1950s.

Later, he attended the Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands.

1953

Under the guidance of Professor Jan Tinbergen of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, he was awarded a doctorate in economics there in 1953.

Mitra taught as a lecturer in economics at the University of Lucknow for two years before proceeding to the Netherlands to complete his PhD thesis.

1960

He joined the Economic Development Institute in Washington, D.C., as a faculty of economics during the early 1960s.

He also worked for the World Bank in the 1960s.

1961

He taught at the UN Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East in Bangkok, Thailand, before returning to Delhi in 1961.

1977

He was finance minister of West Bengal from 1977–87.

1990

In the early-1990s he became the chairman of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

After returning to India he accepted the professorship in economics at the newly established Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

He was the chief economic adviser and later chairman of the Agricultural Prices Commission, both of the Government of India.

In the mid-1990s he became a member of the Rajya Sabha and was chairman of the Parliament's Standing Committee on Industry and Commerce.

He authored the "Calcutta Diary" in Economic and Political Weekly and "Terms of Trade and Class Relations".

He contributed articles regularly to the Calcutta-based national daily newspaper, The Telegraph.

He also wrote short stories in Bengali.

1996

He was conferred the Sahitya Academi Award in 1996 for his Essays entitled Tal Betal.

His publications include China-Issues in Development and From the Ramparts, Prattler's Tale: Recollections of a Contrary Marxist (which has also been published in Bengali as Apila Chapala).

He founded a journal entitled Arek Rakam.

2008

Mitra was married to Gouri, who died aged 79 in May 2008.

2018

He died on 1 May 2018 at the age of 90.

Ashok Mitra is survived by his only sibling, Sreelata Ghosh (née Mitra), sister.