Study of Changes in Traditional Culture. Editor K.P.Chattopadhyay

Article, 2022

Anthropology departments in India not only lack their own histories but they also do not have their anthropology. The departmental reunions, organised by the students provide opportune occasions not only for the union of the old and new hearts and minds for the exchange of ideas which once inspired the old but it also challenges the old to encounter the ones that is shaking the young minds at present. For a veteran anthropologist reunion in the department is a cultural event to see one’s self from a historical perspective. I am, therefore, fortunate enough that the students and the teachers of the department of anthropology invited me to write a history of this department in which I worked as a teacher for thirty years since its inception in 1985. My point of departure lay in viewing the physical and the cultural space named ‘University campus’ by situating the case study of Vidyasagar University in a theoretical and global context.So, campus anthropology and study of land grab which came accidentally in my anthropological journey have an underlying unity and that is the essence of this memoir.

ANTHROPOLOGY IN INDIA, 2022

Economic and Political Weekly, 2006

with K.T. Rammohan. (2006). Book Review of The Anthropology of North-East India: A Textbook by T. B. Subba & G. C. Ghosh. Economic and Political Weekly, 41(2), 128-130.

Article, 2012

A survey of the changing aspects of different disciplines-belonging to different faculties-informs us of the impact that anthropological methods, perspectives, theories, and the conclusions of their cross-cultural studies have exercised on them, which indirectly confirms the analytical strength, explanatory power, and methodological sophistication of anthropology. Notwithstanding this, the growth of anthropology in India has been both uneven and slow, a consequence of which has been the 'interiorisation' of anthropologists, or which T.H. Ericksen has termed 'inward-gazing'. Contemporary anthropologists have become aware of what they have been passing through, and are striving their best to recover the past glory of their discipline when they were active participants in public debates. One of the points that this article puts forth is that anthropologists are 'dispassionate observ-ers' as well as 'citizens'. In the first role, they are committed to understanding the social and cultural processes; in the second, like any other conscientious citizen, they expect all societies and states to be just, civil, and inclusive. In the dialectics of these roles, the state of contemporary anthropology can be properly located.

ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCHES AND STUDIES (ARS), 2018

Domains: bio-medical anthropology: auxology, behavioral ecology, epidemiology, nutrition, physical activity, sport, sexual-reproductive health, population biology, psychology, psychiatry, etc. socio-cultural anthropology: topics based on the behavioral categories (economic, political, linguistic etc.), on human relations (gender, family, nation, etc.), on values (ethical, aesthetic, philosophical, religious, etc.), as well as on methodology.

IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2014