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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (3): 491–493.
Published: 01 August 2023
..., as the Modi government has been reluctant to release data that could depict the results of its economic policies in an adverse light. Given the immense effort that Mahalanobis and his colleagues had invested in forging a world-class survey, it is lamentable that the crass considerations of electoral politics...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 22 (3): 316–320.
Published: 01 May 1963
... this clearly when he says (p. 23): “Such a proportion of investment in the large scale industries and mines is a minimum for an industrialization plan.” Cf. also the illuminating discussion of the Mahalanobis model which provided the basis for the Indian Second Five Year Plan in Malenbaum Wilfred...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (1): 188–190.
Published: 01 February 1996
.... Mahalanobis. Ahmedabad : Mapin Publishing , 1994 . 180 pp. $65.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 188 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES persuasive reinterpretation of an old and significant issue, or by providing a useful overview of the state of particular areas...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (4): 579.
Published: 01 August 1962
... Harrod-Domar formulation, the author goes on to refer to the model used by Mahalanobis in the Indian planning projections. Next comes a reference to the Marxian schema of simple and expanded reproductions, followed by a description of the extension of the Marxian model by the French economist Charles...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (4): 585.
Published: 01 August 1962
.... Mahalanobis. ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 825–826.
Published: 01 August 2012
... of influential scientists behind the formative Indian science and nuclear program. These include the eminent physicist and first chair of India's Atomic Energy Commission Homi Bhabha, his successor, Vikram Sarabhai, distinguished mathematician P. C. Mahalanobis, and equally renowned (yet lesser-known and long...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (4): 1060–1062.
Published: 01 November 2021
... visited the Indian Statistical Institute in December 1956, a collaboration was established, in the course of which the PRC toyed with adopting the “stochastic approach” based on random samples, favored by the institute's director, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis. However, the Anti-Rightist movement, followed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (4): 869–870.
Published: 01 August 1985
... of the many inspirations of P. C. Mahalanobis, onetime disciple of Tagore, a wizard at statistics. The Community Projects Administration, which burgeoned under the umbrella of the Planning Commission, "functioning in the manner of a traditional bureaucracy remained preoccupied largely with the attainment...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (2): 434–435.
Published: 01 May 1992
... with economic planning profoundly influenced Prime Minister Nehru and the noted Indian statistician and planner, P. C. Mahalanobis. Nehru, though a staunch democrat, was nevertheless quite dubious about the wisdom of India adopting a purely free market economy. Consequently, aspects of the Soviet model, which...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (4): 868–869.
Published: 01 August 1985
.... Mahalanobis, onetime disciple of Tagore, a wizard at statistics. The Community Projects Administration, which burgeoned under the umbrella of the Planning Commission, "functioning in the manner of a traditional bureaucracy remained preoccupied largely with the attainment of targets rather than...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (4): 1047–1048.
Published: 01 November 1993
... Survey. It updates the studies of the 1950s conducted by the Government of India's Income Distribution Committee chaired by P. C. Mahalanobis. The book is written in a non-technical language that is accessible to noneconomists, and it provides a good introduction to the way changes in the prices of rural...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (2): 433–434.
Published: 01 May 1992
..., the Soviet experience with economic planning profoundly influenced Prime Minister Nehru and the noted Indian statistician and planner, P. C. Mahalanobis. Nehru, though a staunch democrat, was nevertheless quite dubious about the wisdom of India adopting a purely free market economy. Consequently, aspects...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (4): 578–579.
Published: 01 August 1962
... international economic relations can play in it." The first chapter is devoted to a discussion of several growth models. Starting with the elementary Harrod-Domar formulation, the author goes on to refer to the model used by Mahalanobis in the Indian planning projections. Next comes a reference to the Marxian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (4): 584–585.
Published: 01 August 1962
... at the initiative of the Indian Statistical Institute and especially of P. C. Mahalanobis. ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (4): 585–586.
Published: 01 August 1962
.... Mahalanobis. 586 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES The Atlas forms the cartographic basis for the second volume which will contain the regional analysis and synthesis. A. T. A. Learmonth of the Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, was in charge of the project with headquarters in Bangalore. He...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1963) 23 (1): 148–149.
Published: 01 November 1963
..., The Art of Chinese Poetry. By JAMES J. Y. LIU. Chi- Publisher, 1963. 190. (no price) cago: The University of Chicago Press, 1962. xvi, Hommage a Rabindrandth Tagore. By RABINDRANATH 165. $4.50. TAGORE. Extrait de France-Asie, No. 170 (Nov.- Talks on Planning. By P. C. MAHALANOBIS. New York: Dec, 1961...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1962) 21 (4): 579–581.
Published: 01 August 1962
... Harrod-Domar formulation, the author goes on to refer to the model used by Mahalanobis in the Indian planning projections. Next comes a reference to the Marxian schema of simple and expanded reproductions, followed by a description of the extension of the Marxian model by the French economist Charles...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (3): 697–727.
Published: 01 August 2017
...’ prospects also fired the imagination of intellectuals and political radicals the world over. P. M. S. Blackett, the left-leaning Nobel laureate in physics, once confided to the Indian planner and statistician P. C. Mahalanobis that he could foresee India in the future holding its own or perhaps even...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (3): 675–696.
Published: 01 August 2017
... that corresponded well with a middle-class vision of society as a naturally hierarchical formation. Bhabha, Sarabhai, Mahalanobis, Swaminathan, Dhawan, Pitroda, and others have become so identified with particular technology projects that they stand in as metonymic representations of the project in the public...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (4): 611–635.
Published: 01 August 1978
... ; Scott James , “ The Erosion of Patron-Client Bonds and Social Change in Rural Southeast Asia ,” JAS , XXXII ( 1972 ), pp. 5 – 37 . 107 Ibid., pp. 1–5. 106 Mahalanobis, p. 1. 105 Mahalanobis P. C. et al, Famine and Rehabilitation in Bengal ( Calcutta...