Honours
- Weldon Medal from Oxford University (1944)
- Fellow of the Royal Society, London (1945)
- President of Indian Science Congress (1950)
- Fellow of the Econometric Society, U.S.A. (1951)
- Fellow of the Pakistan Statistical Association (1952)
- Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, U.K. (1954)
- Sir Deviprasad Sarvadhikari Gold Medal (1957)
- Foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1958)
- Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge (1959)
- Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1961)
- Durgaprasad Khaitan Gold Medal (1961)
- Padma Vibhushan (1968)
- Srinivasa Ramanujam Gold Medal (1968)
The government of India decided in 2006 to celebrate his birthday, 29 June, as National Statistical Day.
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