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Professor Om Prakash
Professor Om Prakash (18 August 1927 - 4 December 2008), was one of India’s most renowned academicians in economics and financial management of the 20th century. A legend in his field, he illuminated the life of others with his support and guidance. Sean Taylor recognizes Prof. Om Prakash as one of the “Outstanding People of the 20th Century” in his 1998 book with the same title. He has been referred to as the “Doyen of Commerce and Management education in India” by one of his former students and now a renowned faculty member of Rajasthan University.

Prof. Om Prakash was Vice-Chancellor of two Universities (University of Rajasthan, Jaipur and Bundelkhand University, Jhansi), promoter of several Management Institutes, and a pioneer of MBA programs in India.

He had a stellar academic career, winning back to back first-class-first awards and acquiring an M.Com., D.Phil., and D.Litt... He started his illustrious career as a permanent Faculty Member at Allahabad University in 1947 (the “Golden age” of the University) in the presence of luminaries such as Dr. Amarnath Jha. Later, he occupied the First Chair in Commerce at Punjab University (Chandigarh), subsequently moving to Bundelkhand University (Jhansi), and finally to Rajasthan University (Jaipur).

Prof. Om Prakash also traveled around the globe on academic assignments covering the Karl Marx University of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna, Harvard Business School, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was well received and appreciated. He also represented India at the International Management Conference (TIMS) in Washington and World Congress of Economists (IEA) at Budapest and rubbed shoulders with Nobel laureates Paul Samuelson and Jan Timbergen.

In 1958, Professor Om Prakash was the only Indian to have won the CED International award from the Committee for Economic Development (New York) on 20-year projections of the American economy, which turned out to be surprisingly true. Designated as the First National Fellow in Commerce in 1978, and as Emeritus Fellow in 1988, he was honored for lifetime achievements in 1999.

He authored over 30 books and 400 papers, brought out by such prestigious agencies as The Economic Journal of the Royal Economic Society (UK) and the World Bank. He was also responsible for raising the Indian Journal of Economics to an international academic stature along with a rare combination of astounding commercial success as its editor (1954-62). Close to half a dozen books have been dedicated to him.

Here is a list of few of his publications (in chronological order):
 * 1)  Principles  and Problems of Industrial Organization (1953)
 * 2)  Marketing in India 3rd edition* (1954)
 * 3)  Theory and Working of State Corporations with special reference to India (1962)
 * 4)  The Economic Sins of Nations (1978)
 * 5)  Ratio Analysis for Management in New Perspective (1987)
 * 6)  Guided Incomes Policy (1983)
 * 7)  The Management Panorama (1990)
 * 8)  Development and Fiscal Economics (1992)
 * 9)  The Commercial Society (1994)
 * 10)  International and General Economics (1994)
 * 11)  Commerce and Government (1997)
 * 12)  Great Thoughts of Commercists (1997)
 * 13)  The Economics of Liberalisation: The Indian Drama (1996)
 * 14)  Thoughts on Education (2001)
 * 15)  Indian Economy under Multinational Sway (2002)
 * 16)  Economic Environment and 21st Century Management (2003)
 * 17)  Whiter India (2005)
 * 18)  Economics Ethics and Management (2008)


 * revised by Prof. Om Prakash