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61(18), May 2. 2026: p.34-40 In his academic writings spanning over six and a half decades, Amiya Kumar Bagchi straddled several areas among which economic history and political economy of development/underdevelopment attracted his abiding interest. He generally drew his insights from Marx and Keynes and illuminated the problems of underdevelopment with his own analytical perspective seeped in history. In this paper, we take an in-depth look at Bagchi’s huge scholarly output, classified into major thematic areas, which are industrialisation, the behaviour of investment, and the role of the state in a mixed economic system; colonialism and its connection with the growth of global capitalism; and conceptualising a global history of capitalism from the perspective of human development.-Reproduced https://www.epw.in/journal/2026/18/special-articles/intellectual-contributions-amiya-kumar-bagchi.html Economic & Political Weekly 260518