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'''Shiba Prasad Chatterjee ''' (22 February 1903 | '''Shiba Prasad Chatterjee ''' (22 February 1903 – 27 February 1989) was a Professor of [[Geography]] at the [[University of Calcutta]], India. He served as President of the [[International Geographical Union]] from 1964 until 1968,<ref>{{cite web|title=History of International Geographical Union|url=http://www.igu-online.org/site/?page_id=24|access-date=11 December 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426044140/http://www.igu-online.org/site/?page_id=24|archive-date=26 April 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Chatterjee received a [[Murchison Award]] from the [[Royal Geographical Society]] in 1959, and a [[Padma Bhushan]] from the [[Government of India]] in 1985.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015}}</ref> He coined the name '[[Meghalaya]]' for one of India's states.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=1937-03-20|title=Le plateau de Meghalaya (Garo-Khasi-Jaintia)|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/139489b0|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=139|issue=3516|pages=489–489|doi=10.1038/139489b0|issn=1476-4687}}</ref> | ||
==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||