Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

lede-700x420

Charles Darwin and the Lasting Legacy of Eugenics

Jessica Helfand 05/08/2020

In 1872, with the publication of “The Expression of...

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, National Register of Citizens, National Population Register, caste distance, Muslims, Hindus, Christians, BR Ambedkar, MK Gandhi, photographic profiloscope, profiloscope, Bharatiya Janata Party, Hindu Mahasabha, Atul Krishna Sur, Brija Shankar Guha, West Bengal, upper caste, lower caste, pan-Indian nationalism, right-wing nationalism,

What Mahalanobis Got Right About National Identity – and the BJP Gets Wrong

Abhinav Srinivasan 26/01/2020

Like Mahalanobis, the current government mistakenly believes that a...

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis. Credit: puducherry.gov.in

Listen: A Scientific Take on the Indian National Identity Through Mahalanobis’s Profiloscope

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 24/03/2016

P.C. Mahalanobis’s instrument attempted to assimilate an 'Indian' on...