Anthropological Survey of India
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Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) is the apex
indigenous
populations. It also attempts to document the cultures of other communities and religious groups.
History
Anthropological Research in India was founded 1945 in Varanasi and shifted to the Indian Museum at Calcutta in 1948.[3]
In 1916, the Zoological and Anthropological sections of the Museum together became a new entity the Zoological Survey of India. Later, in 1945, the Anthropology section formed into an independent body, the Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI),[4] with Biraja Sankar Guha as the initial director and Verrier Elwin, deputy director.
Operating under the
Dehra Dun (North-West Regional Centre), Udaipur (Western Regional Centre), Nagpur (with Central Library of AnSI) (Central Regional Centre), and Mysore (Southern Regional Centre) (established in 1960), along with some small regional sub-stations.[5]
References
- ^ https://sites.google.com/view/bv-sharma/home
- Govt. of India.
- ^ "Anthropological Survey of India history at anthsi.com". Archived from the original on 11 March 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
- ^ Anthropological Survey of India Archived 2006-05-25 at the Wayback Machine (The Andamanese by George Weber).
- ^ Anthropological Survey of India (ASI), Mysore Archived 22 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Swedish South Asian Studies Network. Lund University. 28 November 2007.
Further reading
- Singh, Kumar Suresh (November 2000). "A perspective on the ASI". Seminar. Retrieved 9 November 2011.
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