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Amartya Sen [1933-0] Indian

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Philosopher, Economist

Amartya Kumar Sen is a Bengali Indian economist and philosopher of Bengali ethnicity, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States.

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People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.		101
It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.		102
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.	Health	103
I have not had any serious non-academic job.		104
While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.		105
I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.		106
From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.		107
But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.	Teacher	108
The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.		109
The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.		110
I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.		111

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