[1] He attended Brojomohun College in Barisal, where he became involved in student politics and obtained his Intermediate of Arts (IA) in 1944.
He was jailed until 1953, and was imprisoned again early in 1954 for demonstrating against Chief Minister Nurul Amin's visit to Barisal.
It was an inter-faith marriage (he was Hindu, she was Muslim), which upset her family,[5] and got the couple expelled from the leftist political party to which they both belonged.
[4] They moved to England,[5] where he completed his PhD thesis: "Regional co-operation for development in South Asia, with special reference to India and Pakistan" and received his degree from the University of Cambridge in 1967.
[6] The family returned to Karachi,[5] where he resumed working for the PIDE, under new director Nurul Islam, a fellow Bengali economist.
[1] Decades later, President of Bangladesh Zillur Rahman would say, "Swadesh Bose raised his voice against discriminatory economic policy of the then Pakistani regime".
[3] The PIDE relocated from Karachi to Dhaka in December 1970,[1] and Bose and his family, which now included daughters Monica and Anita, followed.