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Cambridge: Home from Home

In: Ajit Singh of Cambridge and Chandigarh

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  • Ashwani Saith

    (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

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Ajit joined the DAE in 1964, switched in 1965 to the Faculty of Economics and became a Fellow of Queens’ College. He carried his Berkeley radicalism to Cambridge; his passionate anti-Vietnam War engagement was manifested on city streets and in Faculty corridors, and famously he systematically demolished Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart’s apologist position at the Oxford Union Teach-in of 1965. Cambridge boasted panoramic India expertise. The flow was two-way: outgoing traffic comprised a bevy of prominent Cambridge economists invited by Mahalanobis to support the Planning Commission’s theoretical exercises underpinning the nascent Indian planning process; while inflows comprised successive cohorts of Indian students including a full spectrum of now-famous names. Ajit was, and remained, closely associated with them all. Ajit successfully led a sustained student–staff campaign seeking curriculum and examination reforms to the Economics Tripos, culminating in the famous Student Sit-in of 1972; Lord Devlin’s Enquiry Report vindicated their stand.

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  • Ashwani Saith, 2019. "Cambridge: Home from Home," Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought, in: Ajit Singh of Cambridge and Chandigarh, pages 55-84, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pshchp:978-3-030-12422-9_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-12422-9_4
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