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SARAT CHANDRA ROY
He was a graduate and post graduate
• He was a lawyer.
in English.

• In Ranchi, he became the leading authority on Culture
and society of tribal people of Chota Nagpur Region

(Jharkhand).

• He had a keen interested in tribal society as a by
product of his professional need to interpret tribal

customs and laws for the court.

• He travelled extensively among tribal communities and
did intensive fieldwork among them.

• Roy published more than one hundred articles in
leading Indian and British academic journals.

• In addition to Monographs on various tribes like

Oraon, Mundas and Kharias.
• He became well known anthropologist in India and

Britain and was recognised as an authority on
Chotanagpur.
• Founded the journal ‘Man in India’ in 1922