Delhi School of Economics (DSE), popularly referred to as "D School", is a Higher Educational Institution within the University of Delhi. The Delhi School of Economics is situated in University of Delhi's North Campus in Maurice Nagar. Established in 1949, the campus of the Delhi School of Economics houses the University of Delhi's departments of Economics, Sociology, Geography and Commerce, as well as the Ratan Tata Library. Out of the four academic departments, the Departments of Economics, Sociology and Geography come under the Faculty of Social Sciences, while the Department of Commerce comes under the Faculty of Commerce and Business Studies. Many of its former faculty members and alumni have gone ahead to become world famous economists, social scientists, writers, heads of states and journalists. It presently offers multiple post graduate and doctoral level programmes in a wide range of disciplines. History and organisation Shortly after the independence of India, a group led by Professor V.K.R.V. Rao and supported by India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, launched a project to create a centre for advanced studies in social sciences, which led to the formation of the Delhi School of Economics in 1949. Currently, the Delhi School of Economics houses the Departments of Economics, Geography, Sociology and Commerce. Campus The Delhi School of Economics campus is situated in University of Delhi's North Campus in Maurice Nagar. It is surrounded by other institutions and constituent colleges of the University of Delhi, such as the Faculty of Management Studies, the Institute of Economic Growth, St. Stephen's College and Hindu College. Three constituent departments of the Faculty of Social Sciences - Economics, Sociology and Geography- lie within the Delhi School of Economics campus. It additionally also houses the Department of Commerce, which is a part of the Faculty of Commerce and Business Studies, and the Ratan Tata Library. Constituents Department of Economics Among the faculty at the department of economics have been the likes of V.K.R.V. Rao, B.N. Ganguly and K.N. Raj (all three of whom went on to serve as vice-chancellors at the University of Delhi), Amartya Sen (Nobel Laureate), Manmohan Singh (the former Indian Prime Minister and also the key architect of the economic reforms since 1991), Sukhomoy Chakravarty (who was chief economic advisor), Jagdish Bhagwati, Kaushik Basu, Arjun Kumar Sengupta, Partha Sen, Raj Krishna, Syed Mohammad Ali, the economic historian Tapan Raychaudhuri and others. The department has been associated with three