Nitish Kumar Sengupta (23 September 1934, Palang, Faridpur − 3 November 2013,

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) was an Indian academician, administrator, politician and author.

Biography

He studied at

Jhargram Kumud Kumari Institution Jhargram Kumud Kumari Institution (informally KKI) is a boys-only independent day school in Jhargram, West Bengal, India.It was founded in 1924 by the Raja Narasingha Malla Deb the King of Jhargram. It is the oldest school of Jhargram district ...

and graduated with Gold Medals in his Bachelors and Masters subjects ( from Presidency College when it was affiliated to the

University of Calcutta The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate State university (India), state university in India, located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Considered ...

). He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1957 and held positions such as the

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of the

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and Member Secretary of the Indian Planning Commission. After completing his doctorate in management from

Delhi University Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate university, collegiate Central university (India), central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and ...

, he lectured at several universities and leading management schools in the country He represented India at the UN Commission on

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s and was elected as Chairman 1981-82. After his retirement, he was director-general of the International Management Institute, New Delhi. He entered politics in 1996 and was elected to the

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, where he served as member of several key committees, notably the Public Accounts Committee. He was also general secretary,

All India Trinamool Congress The All India Trinamool Congress (English: All India Grassroots Congress; AITC), colloquially the Trinamool Congress ( TMC) is an Indian political party which is predominantly active in West Bengal. The party is led by Mamata Banerjee, the cur ...

and chairman at the Board for Reconstruction of Public Sector Enterprises, New Delhi. He had been a regular columnist in leading dailies and was the author of twelve books, including several related to management. As a historian, his well-known works are ''A History of the Bengali-speaking People'', ''Dr B.C. Roy: a Biography'' and ''Bengal Divided''. He had also authored ''The Unshackling of Indian Industry: Government and Business'', ''Inside the Steel Frame'' and ''My Times—A Civil Servant Remembers''. Sengupta played a key role in the revitalization of India's capital markets in the 1980s. He had earlier been a diligent builder of the

Licence Raj The Licence Raj or Permit Raj (''rāj'', meaning "rule" in Hindi) was the system of licences, regulations, and accompanying red tape, that hindered the set up and running of businesses in India between 1947 and 1990. Up to 80 government agenci ...

while he was deputy secretary in the Department of Company Affairs from March 1968, just as government policy was changing from what he called "benign aloofness" to "massive intervention in corporate business", most notably in the nationalization of major Indian banks in 1969. For many years he lived in

Chittaranjan Park Chittaranjan Park (also known as C.R. Park) is an affluent and upscale neighborhood in South East Delhi and home to a large Bengali community. It was established on a rocky terrain in the early 1960s under the name EPDP Colony (East Pakistan Di ...

. He died from a cardiac arrest in New Delhi on 3 November 2013.

References

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"Hollowness of China’s Claims over Tibet"
by Nitish Sengupta, 7 April 2008 {{DEFAULTSORT:Sengupta, Nitish Presidency University, Kolkata alumni University of Calcutta alumni Presidency University, Kolkata faculty University of Calcutta faculty Bengali people Indian civil servants 20th-century Indian historians 1933 births 2013 deaths Writers from Kolkata Indian autobiographers Trinamool Congress politicians from West Bengal