The passage of Indian Anthropology has undergone its legendary path with the celebrated work of many great scholars and created a remarkable position in the world anthropological arena. Surajit Sinha, a person of rare academic calibre, was one such leading and extraordinary persona in anthropology and a brilliant scholar in the field of cultural anthropology. He glorified anthropology in the context of conceptual framework, emphasizing the fieldwork tradition. His idea on anthropology moved around the life and culture of the people and he tried to reconstruct the tribal traditions and institutional practices from genealogies, songs, myths, performances and other oral sources. This volume is an outcome of a seminar organized by Anthropological Survey of India, Eastern Regional Centre, Kolkata on the occasion of Professor Surajit Sinha Birth Centenary Celebration in 2018. The articles that comprise this volume, which the distinguished scholars have contributed, elaborate on Sinha’s ideas and their contemporary relevance. In years to come, Sinha’s work will keep on inspiring the anthropology of India, whether it is the task of building up a postcolonial anthropology, or getting a sense of the transformation of tribal society, or the study of the refugees. CONTENTS 1 Introduction: Journey Through Tribes, Caste and the Peasant World / K.M. Sinha Roy 2 Legacy of Professor Surajit Chandra Sinha / R.K. Bhattacharya 3 Surajit Chandra Sinha and His Journey in Anthropology / Nabakumar Duary 4 Surajit Chandra Sinha: The Challenge and Success of an Ethnohistorian Indian Anthropologist / Arnab Das 5 Requiem to an Anthropological Continuum / Gopalkrishna Chakrabarti 6 Anthropology of Surajit Kumar Sinha: From a ‘Western Apprentice’ to a ‘Decolonizer’ / Subrata Sankar Bagchi 7 Surajit Chandra Sinha – A Teacher of Field Work Anthropology: Exemplified by the Way He Taught and I Learnt from Him / R.K. Saha 8 Anthropology of Surajit Chandra Sinha: A Brief Note / S.B. Chakrabarti 9 How Surajit Sinha Viewed Indian Anthropology: Strengths and Limitations / Abhijit Guha 10 Hor-Diku and Bhadrolok-Chotolok Dichotomy: An Appraisal of Professor Surajit Chandra Sinha’s View / Tilak Bagchi 11 Surajit Chandra Sinha and My Professional Journey in Anthropology / Sekh Rahim Mondal 12 Emergence of Identity: Cases from North-West and East India / Indranil Biswas 13 Profile of City/Town: An Experimental Approach in Urban Anthropology / Jayanta Sarkar 14 Abhuj Maria and their Social Organization: A Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group of Chhattisgarh / K.M. Sinha Roy and Rajesh Roshan ABOUT THE AUTHOR / EDITOR K.M. Sinha Roy obtained Masters from University of North Bengal and Doctorate from Ranchi University. He was Superintending Anthropologist (Cultural), Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata and was also the Head of Office in the Eastern Regional Centre and Jagdalpur Sub Regional Centre of the Anthropological Survey of India. He joined Anthropological Survey of India at Port Blair. He has done intensive work on communities of Andaman & Nicobar, such as the Jarwas, Nicobarese and Sentenelese. He has also worked on various national and regional projects in Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Sikkim, Odisha and West Bengal. He has published several research papers in scientific journals of national and international repute and has edited multiple books. Currently, she is working as Assistant Professor of English at Kishanlal Public College, Rewari, Haryana.