Asana, Jehangir Jamasji (1890-1954)

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Asana, Jehangir Jamasji (1890-1954)

Biologist and parapsychologist, a professor of biology at Gujarat College in India, and a correspondent with J. B. Rhine and other parapsychologists on the subject of ESP. Born July 21, 1890, at Broach, Bombay State, he was educated at Bombay University (B.A., M.A.) and Cambridge University, England (M.A.). He died December 16, 1954, at Poona, India.