Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis: A Biography

Contents List of Plates List of Appendices Family Background Early Life Love's Marathon - Rani Wooed and Won The Young Brahmo Visva-Bharati Rabindranath and Prasanta Chandra Presidency College Contributions to Statistics The Big Banyan Tree The Indian Statistical System Professor Mahalanobis and Economics T. N. Srinivasan Work with International Organizations Ranjan K. Som More on the ISI Strategy of Brain Irrigation The Flying Dutchman The Great Dictator Unorthodox Management Style Work Methods The Man Personal Memories Biographical Sketches Homage to Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis C. Radhakrishna Rao Plates ( between pages 252 and 253 ) The house at 210 Cornwallis Street, Birthplace of Prasanta Chandra Prasanta Chandra at the age of 2 (1895) Probodh Chandra Mahalanobis - father Prasanta Chandra and Nirmal Kumari Prasanta Chandra and Nirmal Kumari with Rabindranath Tagore. Professor and Mrs Sten Know and Rathindranath at Alipore Observatory, 1925 Prasanta Chandra and Nirmal Kumari with Rabindranath, Romain Rlland, Madame Rolland and others at Villeneuve, 1926 J. D. Bernal, Nirmal Kumari, Frederic Joliot-Curie, Madame Irene Joliot-Curie and Prasanta Chandra during a visit in January 1950 Satyen Bose, Prasanta Chandra and Norbert Weiner, at Amrapali Garden, 1953 Prasanta Chandra and Nirmal Kumari with Dr R. A. Fisher and workers of the Indian Statistical Institute at Presidency College premises Indian Statistical Institute Prasanta Chandra receiving the "Deshikottama" of Visva Bharati from Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru at a special convocation held on 9 May 1961 Prasanta Chandra addressing the First ISI Convocation, 1962 Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurating studies relating to planning for national development at the Institute, 3 November 1954 Prasanta Chandra received the Bulgarian Science Academy award 1962 R. A. Fisher and Prasanta Chandra signing the register on the occasion of the award of medals in the city hall of Paris in September 1961 Prasanta Chandra attending the United nations Statistical Commission as Chairman, New York, 16 April - 3 May 1956 Prasanta Chandra with Nirmal Kumari just before he was transferred to a Calcutta nursing home ( 24 May 1972 ) Appendices 1A Mahalanobis's Assessment of His Relatives 2A Prasanta Chandra on His Student Days 3A Kanan: An Affair of the Heart 3B PCM's Spiritual Evolution: An Autobiographical Account 4A Extracts from the pamphlet Keno Rabindranathke Chai (Why We Need Rabindranath ) 4B Brahmo Bibaha Bidhi ( Brahmo Marriage Rules ) 5A Copy of a Letter of Resignation by PCM from the post of Joint Secretary, Visva_-Bharati 5B Dealings with Rabindranath Concerning Visva-Bharati 5C Extract from a Letter of Resignation by Rathindranath Tagore from the Post of Joint Secretary 8A Extracts from M. N. Murthy, 'On Mahalanobis' Contributions to the Development of Sample Survey Theory 8B Extracts from C R Rao, Mahalanobis's Era in Statistics 8C A C Mukhopadhyay, 'A Brief Account of PCM's Work on Meteorology and Flood Control and Irrigation' 9A Some Who Helped 9B Financial Crisis in ISI 10A Extra from 'National Sample Survey; General Report No. 1' 10B Extracts from K R Nair, 'The Role of the Central Statistical Organizational in the Indian Statistical System' 10C Extracts from a Note Submitted by PCM to the Government of India 12A PCM's Proposals to the Nuclear Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission 13A PCM on SQC (Extracts) 14A Person, Fisher and the Mahalanobis D2 Statistic 14B Fisher on Sample Surveys 17A Draft of an letter submitted by PCM to Nehru through Deshmukh 18A Starting Salaries of Some Leading Scientists of ISI 19A Excerpts from a Letter by Professor J. Roy to Ashok Rudra, dated February 1993