About the Book: Tribal Studies and Beyond
Dhirendra Nath Majumdar was one of the pioneers of anthropological research in
India. He joined the Department of Economics and Sociology, University of
Lucknow in 1928. In the course of his 32 years of academic work he created in
Lucknow an exceptional centre for anthropological studies through the
institutions and journals he founded. Trying to relate the basic concepts of
anthropology to the general public, he popularized the concept of public
anthropology and was also instrumental in promoting anthropology in Hindi. H.S.
Saksena, one of his prominent students, has in this expositional book on
Majumdars life and works explicated his