Architects Of Anthropology In India (Volume III)

Book Code: 1111026495203

Sarthak Sengupta

ABOUT THE BOOK

Anthropology in India has passed a long way.  The year 2020 marks the centenary of post-graduate teaching of the discipline in India, it is only befitting that the fraternity of Anthropologists in India commemorates this historic journey by revisiting and looking back, deliberating upon the disciplinary journey of Anthropology in India, through the contribution of the doyens in the field. These stalwarts also shaped the trajectories of teaching, research, and the creation of institutions and professional bodies and their organs of knowledge dissemination. A critical reflection on our history through deep reverence, documentation of the performer, and their theoretical and methodological contributions is a need of the hour.

The present compilation Architects of Anthropology in India (Volume III) incorporates a write-up covering sixteen more doyens who contributed immensely towards anthropological studies in India, contributed by a few budding anthropologists and veterans. The book could be prescribed as a reference book for students of anthropology and sociology.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Sarthak Sengupta is a former Professor of the Department of Anthropology at Dibrugarh University. He has forty years of teaching and research experience and has conducted extensive fieldwork among the tribe and caste populations of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Uttar Pradesh. He completed several research projects sponsored by UGC, ICSSR, DST, ICMR, and the Indian Tea Board on health, nutrition, and genetic disorders. He continues to be associated with many Universities as a member of the Academic Council, Board of Studies, etc, He is an active life member of the Indian Anthropological Society; Indian Science Congress Association; Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists, Indian Society of Human Genetics; Assam Science Society; United India Anthropology Forum, etc., and at present Vice-Chairperson, Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists, West Bengal and Vice-President, Indian Anthropological Society, Kolkata. He is a member of the editorial board of several research journals. He has authored more than 300 research articles in reputed National and International journals, authored and edited 28 books, organized a large number of seminars, workshops, and refresher courses, and mentored 14 Ph.D.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements ------------------------------------------7
Preface ------------------------------------------9
List of Contributors ------------------------------------------15
1. Sir Alexander Cunningham: Life and Works ------------------------------------------17
–Y.S. Sanathana, and Manjil Hazarika
2. Life and Works of Prof. Panchanan Mitra
towards Anthropological Studies in India ------------------------------------------31
–Sanjay Mitra and Kaushik Bose
3. Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis and his Contributions 35
to Anthropology
–Baidyanath Pal and Jiban K. Pal
4. Dilip Kumar Sen: A Visionary of Anthropological ------------------------------------------49
Research in India
–Nabakumar Duary
5. Epistemological Account on Prof. B.K. Roy Burman ------------------------------------------63
–Kasi Eswarappa and Ananya Acherjee
6. Susanta Kumar Chattopadhyay: An Extraordinary
Visual Ethnographer in Indian Anthropology ------------------------------------------75
–Nabakumar Duary
7. Professor Pranab Ganguly and his Transformation
from Physical to Bio-cultural Anthropology ------------------------------------------93
–Bidhan Kanti Das
14 Architects of Anthropology in India
8. Life and Works of Prof. L.P. Vidyarthi ------------------------------------------109
–Monimugdha Bhuyan
9. Dr. Bikash Raychaudhuri and his Contribution ------------------------------------------121
to Anthropology
–Sumahan Bandyopadhyay
10. Dr. Biman Kumar Das Gupta: A Leader in ------------------------------------------141
Indian Anthropology
–Palash Chandra Coomar and Tilak Bagchi
11. Professor Chandra Shekhar Singhrol ------------------------------------------155
–Mitashree Mitra
12. Amal Kumar Das: A Visionary Scholar ------------------------------------------161
–Sekh Rahim Mondal
13. Prof. Annada Charan Bhagabati 177
–Sarthak Sengupta
14. Prof. Rann Singh Mann: An Outstanding ------------------------------------------187
Anthropologist par Excellence
–Anima Sharma
15. The Anthropology of V.K. Srivastava: Institutional -----------------------------------------193
Practices, Philosophy, and Tradition
–G. Kanato Chophy
16. Prof. Tayenjam Shyamacharan Singh------------------------------------------ 203
–Sanjenbam Yaiphaba Meitei
17. Index------------------------------------------215