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• Appointed as reader at the university of Calcutta, he

helped to set up the first post graduate anthropology
department in India.

• Awarded an honarary doctorate by German

University.

• Received the titles of ‘Rao Bahadur’ and ‘Dewan
Bahadur’ by Cochin state.

Sarat Chandra Roy
• He was a lawyer. He was a graduate and post

graduate 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