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Title: PIONEERS OF INDIAN ANTHROPOLOGY
Description: THIS NOTE ABOUT THE GREAT INDIAN ANTHROPOLOGISTS WHO PAW THE WAY FOR ANTHROPOLOGY IN INDIA.

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PIONEERS OF INDIAN ANTHROPOLOGY

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ANANTA KRISHNA IYER (1861-1937)

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Ananta Krishna Iyer was born n 1861 in village Lakshm
Narayanapuram in the Palakkad district of Kerala
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At the age of 23,he
obtained his first employment as a clerk in the Land Settlement Office at
Wayanad
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Ananta Krishna Iyer under the orders of Goverment in the year 1902
was entrusted with the systematic ethnographic survey
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This work earned
great appreciation from the eminent foreign Anthropologists
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In recognition of
this work Governent of India was awarded hi the title of Rabo Bahadur
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he was in charge of the departent of
Anthropology in the University of Calcutta from 1920 to 1933
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Important Books:
1) The Cochin Tribes and Castes (1908,1909-12)
2) Lectures in Ethnography (1925)

3) The Anthropology of Syrian Christian (1906)
4) The Mysore Tribes and Castes (1926-1935) 4 Vols
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GUHA (1864-1961)

Biraja Sankar Guha recieved hs MA and PhD degree in Anthropology
from Harward University in 1922nand 1924 respectively
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In 1927 he joined the oological Survey of
India as an anthropologist in its anthropological section
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B S Guha ‘Anthropological Survey of
India’ (ASI) was established and he was apponted as the Officer on Special
Duty in this institution
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In 1946 he became the founder Director of ASI and
served there until death
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Guha
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First, the
Osteological study of historic and prehistoric human remains and the
second,the study of Anthropometry of the Indian population
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His doctoral thesis in anthropology was entitiled ‘The Racial Basis of the
Caste System in India’
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He listed 6 main races with 9 sub-races of Indian population
and this was the most accepted classification ever made
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Under the nfluence of the doctrine of Gandhiji, anthropologists like NK
Bose left their job to join the national movement
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He passed his Bsc Geology with
Honours and Msc Anthropology i the year 1921 and 1925 respectively
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Since he was a follower of Gandhiji in all ideas and activities, he left the
job to join Salt Satyagraha
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He was also the editor of Anthropological
journal,Man in India since 1951
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he was also worked as Advisor of thr
governament of Indi
Title: PIONEERS OF INDIAN ANTHROPOLOGY
Description: THIS NOTE ABOUT THE GREAT INDIAN ANTHROPOLOGISTS WHO PAW THE WAY FOR ANTHROPOLOGY IN INDIA.