Home in the World

Dhaka, Santiniketan, Kolkata and Cambridge each shaped Amartya Sen in ways this memoir sets out carefully, tracing an intellectual life back to the places and people that formed it. The tone is companionable rather than grand. Sen moves between personal recollection and the ideas that grew out of it, so a childhood memory sits next to reflection on famine, colonial rule, independence and the development of modern economic thought. The Bengal Famine and India's independence movement appear as lived context, not distant subjects. Readers without training in economics or philosophy can follow the thinking throughout. Useful details: • A memoir covering childhood in Bengal through the Cambridge years • Historical events treated as formative rather than as background • Reflections on identity, education and global citizenship • Accessible writing on economics and philosophy for general readers Suited to readers of biography, students of social science and anyone drawn to intellectual history, available in English at Boipoka.