Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893–1972) was a Bengali statistician and institution-builder who became one of the most consequential figures in twentieth-century Indian science. Trained as a physicist ...

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In 1947, communal riots tore through Delhi in the aftermath of Partition, and thousands of displaced people took shelter at the Red Fort. The new Indian government had to feed them, but no one knew ...