“The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.”

Presidential Address to the First Indian Statistical Congress, 1938. Sankhya 4, 14-17.
1930s

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