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May 28, 2024 · Researches on the history of Anthropology in India unlike western countries have not yet become a formidable tradition despite the fact that courses on the growth and development of Anthropology ...
- Abhijit Guha
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. Under this background, an exploration is made in this study to search the contributions of anthropologists towards ...
- Abhijit Guha
- 2021
Feb 15, 2024 · ‘Action research’ at the Anthropological Survey in the 1940s–60s. If social scientists in newly independent India were imagining their work in terms of new concepts of space shaped by a transformed political geography, they were clearly doing so as a means of exploring what was distinctive or ‘new’ about India’s social science research.
Colonial Anthropology and the Decline of the Raj: Caste, Religion and Political Change in India in the Early Twentieth Century1 C. J. FULLER Abstract 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 ...
Edward Teyrrel Leith. The first Anthropological Society in India was formed through a meeting on 7 April 1886 at Apollo Street, Bombay (now Mumbai). T. H. Huxley, E. B. Tylor and Sir James Frazer became honorary members. It continued in a room in the Bombay Asiatic Society offices and some grants were occasionally made available to it. Many well-
1871–1911∗. C. J. FULLER. of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom Email: c.fuller@lse.ac.ukAbstractThe anthropology of caste was a pivotal part of co. onial knowledge in British India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Denzil Ibbetson and Herbert Risley, then the two leading official anthropologists, both made ...
In 1945, however, a scheme for the reorganization of anthropological research was prepared by Dr. B. S. Guha and Dr. Seymour Sewell, who were invited by tlhe Govern-ment of India to make proposals for the formation of an independent Anthropological Department, and at the end of that year the nucleus of the Anthropological Survey of India was ...
