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DSE was established in 1949 at the initiative of Prof. Rao, as an institution for advanced studies and research in economics, with the Department of Economics (and Commerce) as its nucleus.

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A decade later, three other Social Science departments viz. Sociology, Geography and Business Management were added.

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The Department of Commerce was set up as a separate department by carving it out of the composite Department of Economics and Commerce in December 1967.

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Department of Commerce has been a part of the cluster of four social science departments collectively known as the Delhi School of Economics.

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Pt. Nehru was its first chairman.

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The department of economics was designated a Centre of Advanced Study by the University Grants Commission in 1993.

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The highest ranking civil servant N.K.Singh, Icher George Ahluwalia, director, ICRIER, Bhaskar Datta, ISI, Delhi, J.V. Raman, Newscaster, Amit Mitra, director general, FICCI, Ravi Dubey and Rajiv Dubey of the Tatas, former finance minister Manmohan Singh, sociologists P.N. Dhar and M.N. Srinivas, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, and the list could go on...



Department of Commerce

In December 1967, the Department of Commerce was set up as a separate department by carving it out of the composite Department of Economics and Commerce, Delhi School of Economics. It became an independent faculty in 1992. Currently, along with the Department of Financial Studies, it constitutes the Faculty of Commerce and Business Studies. The Department is one of the premier centres of learning in the field of commerce in the country, and is renowned for its M.Com, M.Phil and Phd courses. The Department of Commerce also offers two professional management programmes- Master of International Business and Master of Human Resource and Organizational Development. While the Master of International Business programme of the Department was an upgradation of its earlier Post Graduate Diploma course in International Marketing which was started in 1985 and continues as an integerated international business and marketing program at the Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce, Delhi University under affiliation from the Delhi School of Economics, the Master of Human Resource and Organizational Development programme was started by the Department in 1995 to impart managerial competencies in the domain of human resource management and organizational development.