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Ambedkar presented his paper "Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development" at an anthropology seminar, in which he started with the following statement: I need hardly remind you of the complexity of the subject I intend to handle.
Ananthakrishna Iyer is best known for his books Castes and Tribes of Mysore and Castes and Tribes of Cochin. Both are pioneering works on the tribes inhabiting India's west coast. He worked at the Revenue Department at Vayanad, then left to join Victoria College Palaghat. [citation needed] In 1896, he became a headmaster in a Christian school.
Vidyarthi encouraged Indian social scientists to study scriptures like the Vedas, Upanishads, and Puranas to understand India's social and cultural realities. He emphasized the importance of Indian thinkers such as Sri Aurobindo, Swami Vivekananda, and Raja Ram Mohan Roy for their focus on spiritual humanism and universal love.
Irawati Karve (15 December 1905 [1] – 11 August 1970) was an Indian sociologist, anthropologist, educationist and writer from Maharashtra, India.She was one of the students of G.S. Ghurye, the founder of sociology in India.
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P. C. Joshi was a recipient in 1987 of the Indira Priyadarshini Vriksha Mitra National Award as a founder member of Friends of Trees, and the Inter-University Centre Associateship Award in Humanities and Social Sciences, 1996–1999, Certificate of Honour at the First France-India Meet on Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, 2007, Plaque of Appreciation from Department of Sociology ...
Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) is the apex Indian government organisation involved in anthropological studies and field data research, working primarily in the fields of physical anthropology and cultural anthropology, [2] while maintaining a strong focus on indigenous populations. It also attempts to document the cultures of other ...
Biraja Sankar Guha (Bengali: বিরজাশঙ্কর গুহ) (15 August 1894 – 20 October 1961) was an Indian physical anthropologist, who classified Indian people into races around the early part of the 20th century and he was also a pioneer to popularize his scientific ideas in the vernacular. [1]