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Desai was elected prime minister, and became the first non-Congress prime minister of India. Desai was the second and the last prime minister to have been born in the nineteenth century. On the international scene, Desai holds international fame for his peace activism and created efforts to initiate peace between India and rival Pakistan. [3]
Desai was a distinguished visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2003–04. In July 2004 Desai was inducted as an honorary fellow of the London School of Economics and Political Science. [5] In India, Desai has been involved in a variety of public policy ...
Geopolitical economy is a contemporary Marxist approach to understanding the capitalist world historically. [1] It was proposed by Radhika Desai in her Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire [2] as a critique of contemporary mainstream theories of International political economy (IPE) and International relations (IR). [3]
Desai was a title given to feudal lords, and others who were granted a village or group of villages in Maharashtra, and North Karnataka.The title Desai should not be associated with a particular religion or caste, though a Desai would use the title of Rao or Rai or Raje as a suffix to his name denoting he is a king of those villages, The "Desai" title was given by Maratha emperors, Mughal ...
Padma Desai (October 12, 1931 – April 29, 2023) was an Indian-American development economist who was the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of comparative economic systems and director of the Center for Transition Economies at Columbia University.
Ashok Desai, b. 1936, is an Indian economist. He graduated from Sydenham College , Bombay University , with a BCom, proceeded to King's College, Cambridge for a BA in Economics where Nicholas Kaldor was his supervisor; his student contemporaries included Jagdish Bhagwati and Manmohan Singh.
Professor P. B. Desai (1924–1994) was an Indian demographer and economist. He was director of the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) in New Delhi from 1974 to 1976. He headed the Population Research Center at the institute for many years.
Desai was born on 20 November 1880 in Godhra in Panchmahal district of Gujarat. He completed his primary education in Ahmedabad. He studied in B. J. Medical College, Ahmedabad and completed his LCPS (Licentiate of the College of Physicians & Surgeons) from the University of Calcutta in 1906. He started his medical practice at Sarangpur in ...