Delhi School of Economics

[4] Many of its former faculty members and alumni have gone ahead to become economists, social scientists, writers, heads of states and journalists.

It presently offers multiple post graduate and doctoral level programmes in a wide range of disciplines.

Raj (all three of whom went on to serve as vice-chancellors at the University of Delhi), Amartya Sen (Nobel Laureate), Manmohan Singh (the former Indian Prime Minister and also the key architect of the economic reforms since 1991), Sukhomoy Chakravarty (who was chief economic advisor), Jagdish Bhagwati, Kaushik Basu, Arjun Kumar Sengupta, Partha Sen, Raj Krishna, Syed Mohammad Ali, the economic historian Tapan Raychaudhuri and others.

In 2010, Professor Nandini Sundar from the department, won the Infosys prize in the field of social anthropology.

[12][13] The Ratan Tata Library, popularly referred to as RTL, is situated in the Delhi School of Economics campus.