Surajit Sinha,headed many important positions notably such as being the Director of the Anthropological Survey of India, Vice-chancellor of Vishwa Bharati, and Director, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, besides being in various committees of national and regional importance.
He taught Anthropology and Human Geography at Calcutta University, was Director, Anthropological Survey of India and Commissioner for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
Professor Dhirendra Nath Majumdar, an anthropologist par excellence, was born in 1903 at Patna. A post graduate from the University of Calcutta, his journey in ethnographic research was influenced by Shri Sarat Chandra Roy.
Born in Mumbai he had an immense liking for the two great Indian epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
She was endowed with the exceptional attributes of a researcher and writer who was far ahead of other researchers of her time in addressing the issues of women’s marginalisation in post-colonial India
This extraordinary internationally acclaimed anthropologist of the Third World spent his childhood very ordinarily (Sahay, 1988, 2001). Born in a remote village of Bariyarpur, under the Barh Police Station, District Patna in the State of Bihar.
An Indian educationist, anthropologist,
sociologist and a writer.
Renowned physical anthropologist,
Pioneer in the field of human variation studies in Northeast India. Popular author in Assamese and English language.
Founder head, Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Eminent Paleoanthropologist.
January 2nd,1935-7th November 2010)
Renowned anthropologist and former Vice-Chancellor of Utkal University and Sambalpur University, Director andChairperson of the Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies, (NCDS)
Director, Anthropological Survey of India, Eminent Social Anthropologist
