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Progress of Anthropological Research in India by Biraja Sankar Guha

Abhijit Guha

Anthropos,Bd. 41/44, H. 4./6. (Jul. - Dec., /), pp.

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India was one of the countries which started an Ethnographical Survey very early, and under the direction of Sir Herbert Risley a large mass of information, although of a preliminary nature, was collected on the customs and institutions of the people as well as their anthropométrie characters.

Unfortunately this work was not continued and in spite of the efforts of Dr Nelson Annandale and of Dr R. B. Seymour Sewell, F. R. S., Directors of the Zoological Survey of India, with one excuse or other, the project was shelved.

Anthropology had to be content to form only a section of the Zoological Survey of India under one officer, the present writer and a couple of assistants. The importance of the bearing of anthropology on the administration of primitive tribes of which India possesses about 25 millions, the vast amoun