Amlan Datta (Bengali: অম্লান দত্ত; 17 June 1924 – 18 February 2010) was an Indian economist and educationist.
He was schooled at Ishwar Pathshala at Comilla,[3] took 1st class first in Bachelor of Arts in economics from the Presidency College, and earned a first-class fourth in MA from the same university, both with distinction.
[4] As a writer on socio-economic, political and philosophical subjects,[5] Datta's works drew inspiration from Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru.
[6] An opponent of parochialism and dogmatism, Datta evaluated prevailing political and economic doctrines, including Marxist Communism.
Then, he joined the Gandhian Institute of Studies as director in 1978, and thereafter as vice chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan.