What is it about?
This paper is about the contributions of pioneering Indian anthropologist name Tarak Chandra Das(1898-1964), who was rather neglected by his own successors and historians of Indian anthropology in the colonial and post-colonial periods.I have narrated the contributions of T.C.Das, particularly his fieldwork based study on the Bengal Famine of 1943.
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Why is it important?
This work is important for the writing of the history of Indian anthropology.This is also important because, I have highlighted the works of Das in the context of policy.
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I believe that looking at Das's work has both policy implications as well as pedagogic importance for the teaching of nationalist anthropology in post-colonial India.
Professor Abhijit Guha
Institute of Development Studies Kolkata
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This page is a summary of: Tarak Chandra Das: A Marginalised Anthropologist, Sociological Bulletin, May 2011, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0038022920110203.
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