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Notes

  1. We owe to T.N. Srinivasan the first exposition of views of PCM on this matter, in his chapter in Rudra (1996), Ch. II.

  2. This unpublished note by Mahalanobis is available in Rudra (1996), p. 176.

  3. Letter from Mahalanobis to C.D. Deshmukh, Finance Minister, 3 February 1954, vide Rudra (1996), pp. 201-203.

  4. Letter from Mahalanobis to Tagore, 18 December 1921; see Pal (2015), p. 220.

  5. Letter from Mahalanobis to Tagore, 11 January 1927; see Pal (2015), p. 223.

  6. Letter from Mahalanobis to Tagore, 11 January 1927; see Pal (2015), p. 225.

  7. Mahalanobis Trust Deed, Rudra (1996), p. 64; see also Mahalanobis, Presidential Address, Indian Science Congress, Puna, 1950.

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Editors’ note: Sabyasachi Bhattacharya (1938–2019) was a Professor of Economic History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. During 1991–1995, he served as the Vice-Chancellor of Visva-Bharati University at Santiniketan, Bolpur, India. This article is essentially the text of the author’s Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis Memorial Lecture, organized on the occasion of 125th birth anniversary celebration of P.C. Mahalanobis by Indian Statistical Institute and Asiatic Society Kolkata on 20 November 2017. The author passed away on January 7, 2019. Changes suggested by the reviewers to improve the article could not be incorporated by him. However, minor changes suggested by the reviewers and editors have been incorporated. Opinions expressed in the paper are those of the author, and not of the editorial board of Sankhyā.

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Bhattacharya, S. Situating Professor Mahalanobis as a Public Intellectual in the Social History of His Times. Sankhya B 80 (Suppl 1), 237–250 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13571-019-00203-z

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