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		Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis's grandfather founded, with others, an organization called the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, which was to become a torch-bearer of the Bengal Renaissance.
		Mahalanobis received the Weldon Medal from Oxford University in 1944 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, London, in 1945, for his fundamental contributions to Statistics, particularly in the area of large-scale sample surveys.
		Mahalanobis became the Honorary President of the International Statistical Institute in 1957, and was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1961.
	www.isibang.ac.in /ISIBC/mahal.htm (1746 words)

	Calcuttaweb - People : Prasanta Chandra Mahalanbis
		Prasantha Chandra Mahalanobis was born in Calcutta, India on June 29, 1893.
		Mahalanobis was the founder of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in 1931, which was actually started in a room of the Baker Laboratory of the physics department at the Presidency College.
		Mahalanobis received many awards for his work in India and his work on statistics, but some say that his most prized awards would be the Fellowship of the Royal Society and one of the highest civilian awards in India, the Padma Vibhushan.
	www.calcuttaweb.com /people/pcm.shtml (637 words)

	Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (Bangla: প্রশান্ত চন্দ্র মহলানবিস) (June 29, 1893–June 28, 1972) was an Indian scientist and applied statistician.
		His father, Prabodh Chandra, was an active member of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj.
		His name is also associated with the scale free multivariate distance measure, the Mahalanobis distance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prasanta_Chandra_Mahalanobis (361 words)

	Vidyapatha :: Indian Scientists : India's Largest Portal on Educational Information
		It had to be Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, the man with an obsession for statistics.It was thought that he must have found the students' average height and ordered the beds according to that specification.
		On reading it Mahalanobis was so thrilled that he brought several volume of the journal when he came to India for his vacation.That was in 1915 and as World War I was then raging Mahalanobis decided not to return to London.
		Mahalanobis was consulted.Using the figures of rainfall and floods for the past 50 years, he arrived at a different conclusion.
	www.vidyapatha.com /scientists/mahalanobis.php (690 words)

	CENTRAL SHEEP AND WOOL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis was born on 29 June 1893 in Calcutta.
		PCM did not view statistics as a narrow scientific discipline and this was very much reflected in the kind of activities undertaken by the ISI.
		PCM was one of the first persons in India to recognise the importance of calculation technologies in scientific research and development work, especially statistical theory and practice.
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	Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (born June 29 1893, died June 28, 1972) was an Indian scientist and applied statistician.
		He is best known for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure.
		He founded the Indian Statistical Institute, and contributed to large scale sample surveys.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/prasanta_chandra_mahalanobis (349 words)

	Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
		Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (June 29, 1893-June 28, 1972) was an Indian scientist and applied statistician.
		He is best known for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure.
		His father, Prabodh Chandra, was an active member of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj.
	www.whereincity.com /india/great-indians/scientists/prasanta-chandra.php (372 words)

	Encyclopedia: West Bengal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Subhash Chandra Bose, who was belovedly called "Netaji", is still considered an exemplar of courage for Indian youth.
		Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy was a nationalist teacher (Professor of Chemistry and the Founder of Bengal Chemicals).
		Netaji - Subhash Chandra Bose Subhash Chandra Bose (Bangla: à¦¸à§à¦à¦¾à¦· à¦šà¦¨à§à¦¦à§à¦° à¦¬à¦¸à§) (January 23, 1897â€“August 18, 1945note) also known as Netaji, was a prominent leader of the Indian independence movement against the authoritarian British Raj.
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	Mahalanobis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Definition of Mahalanobis distance Mahalanobis distance, in mathematics and statistics, is a distance measure invented by P. Mahalanobis in 1936.
		Mahalanobis distance is (n-1) times leverage (the bottom row), which is a measure of case influence.
		Mahalanobis in Kolkata on 17th December, 1931, the institute gained the status of an Institution of National Importance by an act of the Indian Parliament in 1959.) ?Statistics Iceland (Statistics...
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	Bengal Culture-Best Scientists of Bengal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Prasantha Chandra Mahalanobis, also spelled as Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis was born in Calcutta, India on June 29, 1893.
		Mahalanobis was looking around the library at King's College when he was approached by a fellow named Macaulay for his opinion on some volumes of Biometrika, edited by Karl Pearson.
		The Mahalanobis distance, called the D statistic, which is used extensively in classification problems, rose out of his work on anthropometric problems.
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	Encyclopedia: Raj Chandra Bose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Raj Chandra Bose was born in Hoshangabad, India; he was the first of five children.
		Mahalanobis, director of the new (1931) Indian Statistical Institute, offered Bose a half-time job.
		Mahalanobis told him, "You were saying that you do not know much statistics.
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	Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Rabinderanath Tagore, Santiniketan, Mark Twain, King's College, London, Prasanta ...
		It had to be Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, the man with an obsession for statistics.
		On reading it Mahalanobis was so thrilled that he brought several volume of the journal when he came to India for his vacation.
		For instance, in 1922 engineers attributed a disastrous flood that hit North Bengal to a rise in the river beds and advised the government to raise the embankments of rivers to control floods.
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	Wikipedia: Kolkata
		Among early nationalist leaders, the most prominent were Devi Chowdhurani, Sri Aurobindo, Bipin Chandra Pal, Kshudiram Bose and Surya Sen. The early nationalists were inspired by Swami Vivekananda, the foremost disciple of the mystic Sri Ramakrishna and helped by Sister Nivedita, disciple of the former.
		The first native president of the Indian National Congress Sir Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee and the first Congress president to advocate self rule by Indians, Sir Surendra Nath Bonerjee (referred to by the British as "Surrender Not") were early eminent Calcuttans, who provoked and influenced Nationalist thinking in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
		There are six systems of education catering to each --- the private English medium based convent school education, the central governmental system of education, the West Bengal governmental system of education, the Oxford / Cambridge local exam syndicate education system, the Islamic Madrasah system of education and lastly the open school based education.
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	ComCom: Indian Statistical Institute (ISI)- Development Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Founded by Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in Kolkata on 17th December, 1931, the institute gained the status of an Institution of National Importance by an act of the Indian Parliament in 1959.
		Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, born in a well-to-do progressive family in 1893, had gone to study in Cambridge in 1913, and in 1915, had completed his Tripos in Physics.
		Mahalanobis' view was that the Institute must be allowed to take up large-scale projects, which besides being socially useful would also help in research and training to be practically oriented, and not bookish.
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	Kolkata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Among early nationalist leaders, the most prominent were Sri Aurobindo and Bepin Chandra Pal.
		The early nationalists were inspired by Swami Vivekananda, the foremost disciple of the mystic Sri Ramakrishna and helped by Sister Nivedita, disciple of the former.
		Scientific greats of Kolkata include, in approximately chronogical order, the multifaceted geniuses Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray, the physicists Satyendra Nath Bose, Meghnad Saha and the statistician Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/k/ko/kolkata.html (827 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Article
		When he was professor of physics at the Presidency College, Calcutta, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis was approached by Sir Brajendra Nath Seal, then university Professor of Philosophy, who asked the young physicist to help him with enquiring into the examination system by using statistical methods.
		Mahalanobis nurtured the journal and edited it all his life as his child.
		Mahalanobis was the author of India's First Five-year Plan which was based on the two-sector growth model, and is called the 'Mahalanobis Model'.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20000319/spectrum/main2.htm (3120 words)

	Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis and Nilratan Dhar (the great soil chemist) were senior to Meghnad, by one year and later by two years.
		The fraternity as well as the competition amongst them moulded their endeavours to such a height that almost all of them brought laurels to the country and placed the motherland in high esteem before the eyes of the entire world.
		At the call of his mentor Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy he laid aside his researches to join the relief operations, the headquarters of which was in the Science College of the Kolkata University.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/aug/10/10082005ft.htm (4029 words)

	The Hindu : Opinion / Leader Page Articles : Should the IMD monopolise monsoon forecasts?
		One such problem that Mahalanobis solved completely in 1923 was that at a height of about 4 km is the real seat of origin of meteorological changes.
		Considering that Mahalanobis established the national sample survey and was also the architect of the country's five-year plans based on quantitative economic models, and in his vision of things, ISI was an integral component of this system of applying statistical techniques to address national issues, this disconnect is an irony.
		He believes the separation of national sample survey from the ISI in 1972 (shortly before Mahalanobis' death) is the cause for declining interest in applications at the ISI.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2005/06/29/stories/2005062903591000.htm (1360 words)

	Netguruindia News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Academician Kolmogorov, one of the all-time great scholars in mathematical probability, who was a distinguished member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in its hey days had a chagrin against Prof Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, the founding father of the globally acknowledged Indian school of Statisticians.
		Mahalanobis had an autocratic temperament, his outstanding role as a Statistician and a theorist notwithstanding.
		Mahalanobis had great achievements from the setting up and development of ISI, the prestigious temple of learning, to the Two Sector planning Model, the theoretical crux of the Second plan that gave to the Indian economy the principles of self-reliance in economic development.
	www.netguruindia.com /news/Sep00/13/EDI1.html (418 words)

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		Mahalanobis founded the Indian Statistics Institute in Calcutta on 17th December, 1931, and it gained the status of an Institution of National Importance by an act of the Indian Parliament in 1959.
		They felt the single most important reason was the appearance of the right man at the right place, Mahalanobis, who had almost by accident switched from physics to statistics, he recognised statistics as one of the key technologies of the time.
		Mahalanobis' was not alone in the great advances made by Indians in the field of statiitsics.
	www.swin.edu.au /maths/iase/isecprog.doc (5895 words)

	Amrapali in ISI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis purchased a plot of land with a one-storied building in early 1941 at Baranagore on 87 (now 204) Barrackpore Trunk Road.
		As soon as Amrapali was ready, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis moved there from Gupta Niwas, along with his wife, Rani.
		Amrapali now houses the P.C. Mahalanobis Meuseum and Archives, where a permanent exhibition depicting the life works of Mahalanobis has been organised.
	www.isical.ac.in /~sdebasis/isipage/amrapali.html (242 words)

	Chandra Shekhar -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He was a member of India's upper legislative chamber, the Rajya Sabha, from 1962 to 1967, and he held a seat in the lower chamber, the Lok Sabha, in 1977–79, 1980–84, and from 1989 until he became prime…
		On Jan. 10, 1966, the heads of the two nations signed a pact aimed at a peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute.
		The leader of the most militant wing of India's independence movement was Subhas Chandra Bose.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9022396 (658 words)

	Notes of a Wayfarer: Page 8
		The Institute, that Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis.(1893-1972) founded and still headed, was set up like a research university, with buildings splayed over a large campus.
		Wanting to be as self-contained as possible Mahalanobis established his own guest house (in which I was comfortably lodged), a print shop, and a farm on which much of its food was raised,.
		It had to be printed on proper paper--paper not available in India, so Mahalanobis had to go to the trouble and expense of importing the paper at a time when foreign exchange control made this no easy matter.
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	P C Mahalanobis Photo Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This paper attracted the attention of Sir Gilbert Walker, Director General of Observatories, who requested Mahalanobis to undertake a systematic study of some metrological problems.
		Mahalanobis spent a few months in Karl Pearson's laboratory in London, during which period he performed extensive statistical analyses of anthropometric data and closely examined Pearson's Coefficient of Racial Likeness (CRL) for measurement of bilogical affinities.
		He had nothing but contempt for irrelevant, poorly conceived abstraction which he would dismiss as 'aerodynamics in a viscous fluid.' As a science organizer (and a thinker on organization of science), Mahalanobis was one of the very best of the twentieth century.
	www.isid.ac.in /~library/pcm.htm (1733 words)

	chandra
		In Hinduism, Chandra is a lunar deity, later identified with Soma.
		He is said to be connected with dew, and as such, is a god of fertility.
		Chandra can also refer to the Chandra X-ray Observatory or the astronomer Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
	www.fact-library.com /chandra.html (143 words)

	University of Calcutta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As the first modern university in the Indian sub-continent, the once famous University of Calcutta saw its direction being ably veered towards indigenous concerns and its establishment as an international centre of academic excellence by the first Indian vice-chancellor, Sir Gooroodas Banerjee and later by the Indian vice-chancellors Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee and his son Dr.
		Stalwarts like Alexander Duff, Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Prasanna Kumar Thakur, Prince Golam Mohammad, William Gordon Pratt, Frederick John Moat, the Principal of Calcutta Madrasa were members of the first Senate.
		The first Chancellor and Vice-chancellor of the Calcutta University were the then Governor General Lord Canning and Sir James William Colvil, the then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, respectively.
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	Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		For it was only in the last weeks of 1931 that P C Mahalanobis founded the Indian Statistical Institute in that city.
		Mahalanobis, on the other hand, was more enamoured of the transformative powers of the state.
		There were the fellow travelling liberals — such as P C Mahalanobis — who were enchanted by the Soviet Union — particularly by its economic model — and who thought that despite its faults it was more to be trusted than its North American adversary.
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