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Have you heard the names of Bhabatosh Dutta, Amlan Kusum Dutta, Sukhamay Chakraborty, Ashok Rudra, Kaushik Basu, Ashok Mitra (you might like to discount some of them as belonging to "left liberals" but still . . .?
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Who else will do economics? The cow belt can barely count excluding with stones and sticks and gau and gaav
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Excellent comment. In fact, it's even wrong to call Sen a development economist. He is a Marxist economist. Bhagwati and Rajan are proper classical economists. Among Bengalis, Sanjeev Sanyal and Bibek Debroy.
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Born in Mumbai, Dr Jagdish Bhagwati is an economist equal to, if not greater than, Dr Sen and Dr Abhijit Banerjee. However, a better way to rephrase your question would be: "Why do the majority of top "Development Economists" come from Bengal?"
You mean why so many Nobel laureates? Cause we Bengalis are intellectually better than majority of the northern parts of India. The south still comes close
Cause Marwaris do business and not write books about business.
Come on man, that's just bias talking.

Jagdish Bhagwati

Raghuram Rajan

Manomohan Singh

Montek Singh Ahluwalia

Meghnad Desai

P. N. Dhar

and countless more non Bengalis have made it.
The other good economist I know is Kaushik Basu. Coincidence? I think not!