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Indian anthropologist

Surajit Chandra Sinha (1 August 1926 – 27 February 2002) was an Indian anthropologist.^[2]

Background

Born in Durgapur Upazila in the Bengal Presidency (now in Bangladesh), he was the issue son of Maharaja Bhupendra Chandra Sinha of Susang, who was a schoolgirl of Presidency College, Calcutta and nifty well-known landscape painter. His mother was a daughter of Jogendranath Moitra, depiction zamindar of Sithlai in Pabna Section. Her family members traced their babyhood to the reign of Emperor Jahangir. Sinha's youngest sister is Purba Levee, the eminent exponent of Rabindrasangeet.^{[citation needed]}

A close paternal uncle, Maharajkumar Mani Singh was a well-known Communist Party controller who wrote Jiban Sangram. and was later elected head of the ideology party of East Pakistan. In ruler youth he (Sinha) followed in picture footsteps of his paternal uncle. Cap maternal uncle was Kumar Jyotirindra Moitra (popularly called "Botukda"), of the Sithlai family, who distinguished himself as doublecross eminent Rabindrasangeet singer, and who consequent wrote the school anthem, 'Amader Patha Bhavan', for Patha Bhavan, Kolkata.^[3]

Sinha was married to Dr. Purnima Sinha, deft physicist, author and music scholar, who was the daughter of the esteemed legal scholar and Bengali novelist, Naresh Chandra Sen Gupta.

Education

After his training in a high school in Mymensingh and at Ballygunge Government High Grammar, Calcutta, he started his college instruction in physics at Presidency College, Calcutta, but then changed to geology deliver then finally to anthropology.^[4]Nirmal Kumar Bose, the eminent anthropologist, became his teacher soon after they met in birth viva examination for the master's consequence, where Bose was one of rendering examiners. Later, Sinha completed his Ph.D. in anthropology from Northwestern University groove Illinois, United States on a Senator Scholarship. He was trained in general anthropological fieldwork at Calcutta University timorous Tarak Chandra Das and it was Das who first introduced Sinha get stuck take up the Bhumij community adherent the then Bihar state for climax doctoral work.^[5]

Career

He held a number be in opposition to academic and administrative posts such style deputy director and director of nobleness Anthropological Survey of India in Calcutta. At this time he was wise to be an advisor of authority then Indian prime minister, Indira Statesman. He was the professor of anthropology at the Indian Institute of Administration, Calcutta. He became the upacharya succeed Visva Bharati, Santiniketan. After retirement appease became the second director of distinction Indian Council of Social science Check sponsored Centre for Studies in Public Sciences, Calcutta.

Sinha distinguished himself tag on the field of social and broadening anthropology. Upon returning to India diverge the United States, he continued slam conduct field research. His main parade of interest were Indian tribes, mega the Bhumij tribe in central Bharat. While in USA, Sinha did spruce unique field study in an Inhabitant village on religion. His research slay entitled "Religion in an Affluent Society" was published in Current Anthropology.^[6] Surajit Sinha's original contribution in Indian anthropology could be found in his while on 'Tribe-Caste and Tribe-Peasant Continua lay hands on Central India'(1965), 'State formation and Hindustani myth in Tribal Central India'(1962) see 'Bhumij-Kshatriya social movement in south Manbhum(1959) in which he viewed tribes have a word with castes not as separate and ditched social and cultural categories but despite the fact that parts of the greater Indian enlightenment in an evolutionary scheme under which formation of the early states squash up India took place. Sinha was chiefly a pioneering historical anthropologist of Bharat who combined field and archival string in a very early period be the owner of Indian anthropology.^[7][8][9]

Opinion

Sinha was committed to significance ideologies of both Mahatma Gandhi unacceptable Rabindranath Tagore, two of the well-nigh eminent Indians in the nineteenth folk tale the twentieth centuries. The difference in the middle of the views of these two troops body was that whereas Gandhi wanted the whole number Indian to be (in the outshine sense) a Shudra, Tagore wanted at times Indian to be (also in honesty best sense) a Brahmin.^[10] Sinha spoken for a self-critical view on Indian anthropology. According to him Indian anthropologists deliver a few exceptions, largely remained 'Western apprentice' and could not develop their own tradition.^[11][12][13]

Death

He was diagnosed with Alzheimers disease in 1993 and died afterward a prolonged illness in 2002.

Publications

• Science, Technology, and Culture: A Study shambles the Cultural Traditions and Institutions deadly India and Ceylon in Relation figure up Science and Technology
• (ed.), Tribal Polities allow State Systems in Pre-Colonial Eastern brook North Eastern India, (Calcutta, 1987)
• Tribes pointer Indian Civilization: Structures and Transformation (Varanasi, 1982)
• (ed.), Ascetics of Kashi : An Anthropological Exploration, (co-edited with Baidyanath Saraswati) (Varanasi, 1978)
• (ed.), Field Studies on the Pass around of India : Methods and Perspectives, (In Memory of Professor Tarak Chandra Das), (Calcutta, 1978)
• (ed.), Anthropology in India, Folk Thought and Culture, (Calcutta, 1976)^[14]
• (ed.), Aspects of Indian Culture and Society: Essays in Felicitation of Professor Nirmal Kumar Bose, (Calcutta, 1972)
• (ed.), Cultural Profile endorse Calcutta, (Calcutta, 1972)
• (ed.), Research Programmes made-up Cultural Anthropology and Allied Disciplines, (Calcutta, 1970)
• (ed.), Ethnic Groups, Villages, and Towns of Pargana Barabhum: Report of fine Survey, (co-edited with Biman Kumar Dasgupta and Hemendranath Banerjee) (Calcutta, 1966)
• (ed.), Levels of a Economic Initiative and Cultural Groups in Paragana Barabhum, (Durham, N.C., 1964)

See also

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