Ashok Mitra

Ashok Mitra
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
for West Bengal
In office
19 August 1993 – 18 August 1999
Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India
In office
1970–1972
Preceded byVK Ramaswamy
Succeeded byManmohan Singh
Finance Minister of West Bengal
In office
1977–1982, 1984–1987
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
In office
1983–1987
Preceded byDinesh Chandra Majumdar
Succeeded byBuddhadeb Bhattacharjee
ConstituencyJadavpur
In office
1977–1982
Preceded byLakshmi Kanta Bose
Succeeded byHoimi Basu
ConstituencyRashbehari Avenue
Personal details
Born10 April 1928
Dacca, East Bengal, British Raj
Died1 May 2018(2018-05-01) (aged 90)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
CitizenshipIndian
Alma materUniversity of Dacca
Benaras Hindu University
Delhi School of Economics
Erasmus University Rotterdam
AwardsSahitya Akademi Award (1996)

Ashok Mitra (10 April 1928[1] – 1 May 2018) was an Indian economist and Marxist politician. He was a chief economic adviser to the Government of India and later became finance minister of West Bengal and a member of the Rajya Sabha.

  1. ^ Deepak Nayyar (1998). Economics as Ideology and Experience: Essays in Honour of Ashok Mitra. Frank Cass. p. xiii. ISBN 0-7146-4723-3.