Dwijendra Tripathi (29 July 1930 – 5 September 2018) was a professor of business history at the
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad) is the world's number 1 business school, located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The school has been accorded the status of an Institute of National Importance by Ministry of Human Resourc ...
where he worked for more than 25 years. He is considered the "Father of Business History" in India.
Personal life and education
Dwijendra was born on 29 July 1930 in a village in
Azamgarh district
Azamgarh district is one of the three districts of Azamgarh division in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Etymology
The district is named after its headquarters town, Azamgarh. Azam, a son of Vikramajit, founded the town in 1665. Vikramajit ...
,
Uttar Pradesh
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, while India was still under
British colonial rule
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. He got a First Class in his Class XII exams in the Arts stream.
He studied at the
University of Allahabad
, mottoeng = "As Many Branches So Many Trees"
, established =
, type = Public
, chancellor = Ashish Chauhan
, vice_chancellor = Sangita Srivastava
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where he received his Bachelor of Arts in history, economics, and English literature in 1952 and his Master of Arts in history in 1954.
He graduated in 1963 from the
University of Wisconsin
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where he pursued a
Ph.D.
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in comparative economic history - India & U.S. as a
Fulbright scholar. He was married to his wife Saraswati for more than fifty years, and had three children- Tushar, Parimal, and Smita.
He died on 5 September 2018, which is also the day India celebrates Teachers' Day.
Career
In India
From August 1954 to April 1964, he worked at the department of history and political science, D.N.J. College, University of Jabalpur.
In May 1964, he moved to
Bombay
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(now Mumbai) to work at the
State Bank of India as a Research Officer in their Historical Research Department.
In July 1964 he joined the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad where he chose to teach in the Economics educational area.
He was sent by the institute to the
Harvard Business School, which had a tie-up with
IIMA, for the International Teachers Programme for a year in 1964.
While at IIMA, he was on numerous committees, was the PGP Chairperson for four years, and was also dean for four years.
He joined the Board of Governors of IIMA as a faculty representative in the 1980s.
At other universities
In the summers of 1961, 1962, and 1963 respectively, he worked as an instructor at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison
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,
George Washington University
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and
Howard University
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, and
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
He was a research assistant at University of Wisconsin from 1961-1962 and 1962-1963.
In 1970, he was visiting professor at the Department of American Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is a public major research university located in New Delhi, India. It was established in 1969 and named after Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. The university is known for leading faculties and r ...
.
He taught at the
University of Utah
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,
Salt Lake City
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for a year in 1979.
From 1985–1986 he was a visiting research fellow at the
Institute of Developing Economies
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, Tokyo.
He was a visiting researcher (American Fellowship) at
Brown University from March to June 1992.
In 2002-2003 he was the General President of the
Indian History Congress Indian History Congress is the largest professional and academic body of Indian historians with over 35,000 members. It was established in 1935. The name of any new applicant for membership needs to be proposed and seconded by existing Ordinary or L ...
.
To honour his legacy, the International Conference on Indian Business & Economic History in Memory of Prof. Dwijendra Tripathi will be held on 29-31 August 2019, at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Writing
Some of Tripathi's vast range of works include:
* Dating the Destiny: Thirty Five Years of the
Larsen & Toubro
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. (1975)
* Themes and Perspectives in American History: Essays in Historiography (1978)
* The Dynamics of a Tradition:
Kasturbhai Lalbhai
Kasturbhai Lalbhai (19 December 1894 – 20 January 1980) was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. He co-founded the Arvind Mills along with his brothers and several other institutes. He was a cofounder of the Ahmadabad Education Soci ...
and His Entrepreneurship (1981)
* Tribute to Ethics: Remembering Kasturbhai Lalbhai (1983), co-editor
* Towards a New Frontier: History of the
Bank of Baroda
Bank of Baroda (BOB or BoB) is an Indian public sector bank headquartered in Vadodara, Gujarat. It is the second largest public sector bank in India after State Bank of India, with 132 million customers, a total business of US$218 billion, ...
(1985)
* State and Business in India: A Historical Perspective (1987), author and editor
* Historical Roots of Industrial Entrepreneurship in India and Japan: A Comparative Interpretation (1997)
* Alliance for Change: A Slum Upgrading Experiment Ahmedabad (1998)
* The Oxford History of Indian Business (2004)
* The Concise Oxford History of Indian Business, with Jyoti Jumani (2007)
*
* Dynamics of Ascent: A Centenary History of Bank of Baroda (2007)
* The Oxford History of Contemporary Indian Business (2013)
References
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1930 births
2018 deaths
20th-century Indian historians
21st-century Indian historians
21st-century Indian male writers
20th-century Indian male writers
People from Azamgarh district
University of Allahabad alumni
Indian expatriates in the United States
Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Business historians