My final exemplar is the Gandhian economist J.C. Kumarappa. Born in 1892 in the southern part of the Tamil country, Kumarappa originally trained in accountancy in London. He had a flourishing practice as an auditor in Bombay, which he left to take a masters degree at Columbia University in New York. There he embarked on a study of public finance (under the supervision of E.R.A. Seligman), in the course of which he uncovered the colonial exploitation of the Indian economy.
The Indian Road to Sustainability : Ramachandra Guha 2006: How Much Should A Person Consume? : Thinking Through the Environment
by Ramachandra Guha, Permanent Black, 01 January, 2006