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	Publisher: Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal, Indian National Confederation And Academy Of Anthropologists, Jhargram
	Author , Dipali G. Danda
	Language: English
	Pages: 235
	Cover: HARDCOVER
	8.5x6 inch
	Weight 430 gm
	Edition: 2010
	ISBN: 8190386697
	HCC955

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About the Book Anthropology in India: Current Epistemology and Future Challenges is the outcome of an academic discourse, Round Table 2009, organized by the Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists (INCAA), in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi Manav Sanghralaya, Bhopal and the Rastriya Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad. There is a near consensus among the contributors to this volume that anthropology as an academic discipline in India is passing through rather a bad patch of its existence. Questions arose, could it be because of its history of being a British colonial transplant? Further questions came up: whether this country was altogether void in anthropological knowledge during the pre-British days of India? If not, has there been any initiative even during post-British days to bridge the hiatus between anthropology as a body of knowledge and anthropology as an academic discipline? Contributors to this treatise volunteered to address these issues, along with several others, under the strict rubric of anthropological professionalism.

About the Editors Prof. Ajit K. Danda, FNA(Sc), (Born: 1936), is a Ph.D from Cornell University (U.S.A.). He was the former Director, Anthropological Survey of India and Professor and Head, Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology, North Bengal University. He also served as the Professor and Research Director, The Asiatic Society, Calcutta. He was the President of Anthropology and Archaeology Section of the Indian Science Congress Association during 1975-76. At present he is the President of the Indian Anthropological Society and the Member-Secretary, Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists. He has over 150 research articles and 33 books, including edited volumes, to his credit. Shrimati Dipali G. Danda, was a Superintending Anthropologist in the Anthropological Survey of India. She did her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Calcutta and was engaged in research, particularly in the field of cultural anthropology for more than forty years. She has conducted intensive fieldwork in West Bengal, Bihar, Assam, and Maharashtra. Besides her literary contributions, mostly written in Bengali, she has three books and twenty-five research articles to her credit.

Preface Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists (INCAA), the apex organization of anthropologists in India organized, in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal and the Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad; the 4th Inter-Congress in Anthropology at Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh during February 21-23, 2009. The Focal Theme chosen for deliberations at the Inter-Congress was: Anthropology in India: Current Epistemology and Future Challenges. The Governing Council of the Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists (INCAA) decided that from 2009 onwards, as part of the annual academic event, there will be a Round Table on the Focal Theme. Accordingly, the Round Table was organized on February 22, 2009. A special write-up on the Focal Theme, that was prepared and circulated among the prospective speakers as part of the 4th Inter-Congress in Anthropology literature, is reproduced below: ANTHROPOLOGY IN INDIA: CURRENT EPISTEMOLOGY AND FUTURE CHALLENGES Journey of anthropology in India goes back to the days of British colonial administration in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It is evident that anthropological research in India, which originated and developed under the British influence, has been recognized by academic and non-academic bodies and institutions for many decades.

Acknowledgements The Editors of Anthropology in India: Current Epistemology and future Challenges record with appreciation the support received from the authorities of the University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad and the Director, Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal toward organization of the 4th Inter-Congress in Anthropology: 2009, of which the present volume is a part of the academic outcome. The faculty members, scholars, and students of the Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad have made us particularly indebted by extending all possible support toward smooth organization of the programme. Special thanks are due to the contributors to this volume who not only had responded to our invitation to participate in the Round Table organized for the purpose overwhelmingly but also have made their essays / notes available to us on time for their early publication. The Editors are particularly indebted to Shri Vikas Bhatt, Director-in-Charge Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal and his colleague from the same Institution, Shri Sudhir Srivastava for their interest in and initiative toward bringing out the volume on time. We also acknowledge with thanks the editorial support received from Shrimati Nibedita Acharjee. Shri Parthasarathi Sarkar of Desktop Printers, Kolkata has earned our appreciation through his initiative in bringing out the volume in minimum possible time.

Introduction Our colleagues from the Dept. of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad, have earned a distinction by their choice of the Focal Theme, Anthropology in India: Current Epistemology and Future Challenges, for the 4th Inter-Congress in Anthropology. Tracing its roots from the patronage of the British colonial administration, they demonstrate, how after independence of the country, the Indian Anthropology experienced a paradigm shift in the context of emerging specializations. Such progressive developments notwithstanding, the concomitant outcome have not been altogether without blemish. As they spell it out, "The rise of different specializations within the broad sub-disciplines of anthropology and the changes in the research orientation in different sub-disciplines of anthropology resulted in a divorce from the emphasis of earlier anthropologists on greater interaction and working together of the four sub-disciplines. The earlier view of anthropology as an integrating and inter-disciplinary science in the true sense perhaps requires a re-look at our current as well as the past epistemologies and methodologies across sub-disciplines". Therefore, the theme prescribes, "there is a greater need today to evolve coherent conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches and tools to comprehend the changing anthropological engagements". This, no doubt, is too important to let go unattended or only partly attended.

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