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Surajit Chandra Sinha was born on 1 August, 1926 in Durgapur, Bengal Presidency, British India, is an Indian anthropologist. Discover Surajit Chandra Sinha's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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Occupation Anthropologist, administrator
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 1 August, 1926
Birthday 1 August
Birthplace Durgapur, Bengal Presidency, British India
Date of death 27 February, 2002
Died Place Santiniketan, West Bengal, India
Nationality India

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1926

Surajit Chandra Sinha (1 August 1926 – 27 February 2002) was an Indian anthropologist.

Born in Durgapur Upazila in the Bengal Presidency (now in Bangladesh), he was the eldest son of Maharaja Bhupendra Chandra Sinha of Susang, who was a student of Presidency College, Calcutta and a well-known landscape painter.

His mother was a daughter of Jogendranath Moitra, the zamindar of Sithlai in Pabna District.

Her family members traced their origins to the reign of Emperor Jahangir.

Sinha's youngest sister is Purba Dam, the eminent exponent of Rabindrasangeet.

A close paternal uncle, Maharajkumar Mani Singh was a well-known Communist Party leader who wrote Jiban Sangram.

and was later elected head of the communist party of East Pakistan.

In his youth he (Sinha) followed in the footsteps of his paternal uncle.

His maternal uncle was Kumar Jyotirindra Moitra (popularly called "Botukda"), of the Sithlai family, who distinguished himself as an eminent Rabindrasangeet singer, and who later wrote the school anthem, 'Amader Patha Bhavan', for Patha Bhavan, Kolkata.

Sinha was married to Dr. Purnima Sinha, a physicist, author and music scholar, who was the daughter of the eminent legal scholar and Bengali novelist, Naresh Chandra Sen Gupta.

After his education in a high school in Mymensingh and at Ballygunge Government High School, Calcutta, he started his college education in physics at Presidency College, Calcutta, but then changed to geology and then finally to anthropology.

Nirmal Kumar Bose, the eminent anthropologist, became his mentor soon after they met in the viva examination for the master's degree, where Bose was one of the examiners.

Later, Sinha completed his Ph.D. in anthropology from Northwestern University in Illinois, United States on a Fulbright Scholarship.

He was trained in social anthropological fieldwork at Calcutta University by Tarak Chandra Das and it was Das who first introduced Sinha to take up the Bhumij community of the then Bihar state for his doctoral work.

He held a number of academic and administrative posts such as deputy director and director of the Anthropological Survey of India in Calcutta.

At this time he was considered to be an advisor of the then Indian prime minister, Indira Gandhi.

He was the professor of anthropology at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

He became the upacharya of Visva Bharati, Santiniketan.

After retirement he became the second director of the Indian Council of Social science Research sponsored Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

Sinha distinguished himself in the field of social and cultural anthropology.

Upon returning to India from the United States, he continued to conduct field research.

His main area of interest were Indian tribes, especially the Bhumij tribe in central India.

While in USA, Sinha did a unique field study in an American village on religion.

His research report entitled "Religion in an Affluent Society" was published in Current Anthropology.

1965

Surajit Sinha's original contribution in Indian anthropology could be found in his articles on 'Tribe-Caste and Tribe-Peasant Continua in Central India'(1965), 'State formation and Rajput myth in Tribal Central India'(1962) and 'Bhumij-Kshatriya social movement in south Manbhum(1959) in which he viewed tribes and castes not as separate and isolated social and cultural categories but as parts of the greater Indian civilization in an evolutionary scheme under which formation of the early states in India took place.

Sinha was basically a pioneering historical anthropologist of India who combined field and archival data in a very early period of Indian anthropology.

Sinha was committed to the ideologies of both Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, two of the most eminent Indians in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries.

The difference between the views of these two men was that whereas Gandhi wanted every Indian to be (in the best sense) a Shudra, Tagore wanted every Indian to be (also in the best sense) a Brahmin.

Sinha held a self-critical view on Indian anthropology.

According to him Indian anthropologists save a few exceptions, largely remained 'Western apprentice' and could not develop their own tradition.

1993

He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1993 and died after a prolonged illness in 2002.