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In the colonial anthropology of India developed in connection with the decennial censuses in the late nineteenth century, caste and religion were major topics of enquiry, although caste was particularly important. Official anthropologists, mostly members of the Indian Civil Service, reified castes and
- Colonial, Hindu and Nationalist Anthropology in India - JSTOR
anthropologists held that Indian Anthropology is the product...
- Colonial Transformation of Tribal Society in Middle India - JSTOR
K S Singh. The paper begins with a brief discussion of the...
- Colonial, Hindu and Nationalist Anthropology in India - JSTOR
May 28, 2024 · Indian anthropology, unlike British, American and French anthropologies grew under a colonial rule and it was a challenge for the Indian anthropologists to develop an anthropological...
- Abhijit Guha
In similar vein Pathy (1976, 1981) argues that the origins of the disciplines of anthropology and sociology in India, emerged within the colonial milieu to meet political and administrative needs and later aided in the expansion and consolidation of colonies.
anthropologists held that Indian Anthropology is the product of a colonial tradi-tion and the anthropologists in India for various reasons followed their colonial masters in one way or the other. There also exists a view of Hindu Anthropology which holds that an Indian form of Anthropology could be found in many ancient
Jun 21, 2019 · Abstract. The long-standing critique of Indian Anthropology advanced by some notable anthropologists held that Indian Anthropology is the product of a colonial tradition and the anthropologists in India for various reasons followed their colonial masters in one way or the other.
- Abhijit Guha
- 2019
K S Singh. The paper begins with a brief discussion of the conceptual framework which has governed the. study of tribal societies in general. It then goes on to consider the relationship between history and. anthropolgy, and between colonialism and anthropo!ogy.
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Oct 15, 2020 · The contributions of the anthropologists towards nation building in the early years after independence of India is still an unexplored research agenda in the social sciences in general and anthropology and sociology in particular.
