Ethnic Diversities in India

About the Book The Ethnic Diversities in Indian by product of ethno genesis are a challenge to social analysts in unwinding the most intricate problems of contemporary India. The book Ethnic Diversities in India is a first step towards understanding this issue in an objective manner with the help of standardized anthropological techniques adopted in analyzing the data with a holistic perspective. It has been written in patois for a layman devoid of scientific or technical lingo with a purpose to arouse interest of the thoughtful and concerned people who desire to search meaningfully for their roots.

About the Authors Syed Hasan Mujtaba Rizvi, Ph.D. (Delhi) trained in Physical Anthropology at Universities of Saugar and Delhi has received training in Method and Techniques in Human Cytogenetics and DNA Polymorphism, remains engaged in anthropological research since 1969, A fervent advocate of holistic tradition in Anthropological Research, he has blended the physical aspect of Man in such a fashion that the fusion has become the hallmark of his more than three decades of research.

He has been closely associated with Dr. Shibani Roy and has been co-author too of many treatises, they as a team, wrote in the span of more than three decades. His book on Mina-A Ruling Tribe of Rajasthan was the pioneer study in Social Biology of the largest tribe of Rajasthan.

Currently he is associated with Anthropological Survey of India, Government of India and posted in Central Regional Centre. Shibani Roy, Ph.D. (Delhi) is a field-work oriented researcher who, since 1969 is unabatedly conducting anthropological investigations among various ethnic groups spread from coastal Gujarat to inaccessible and inhospitable rugged terrain of north castern India-the abode of diverse and distinct tribes.

The empirical data collected from rigorous painstaking, time consuming and labour intensive field work, when analyzed in the context of contemporary social situation, gave shape to many treatises which proved to be milestones in Indian Anthropology. Her well-researched books on Anthropology have been well received by the reviewers, critics and laymen too. Her more than 50 research papers published in Indian and Foreign Journals encompass the holistic approach in understanding Man and his bio-cultural behavior. Currently she is posted as Superintending Anthropologist in Central Regional Centre of Anthropological Survey of India, Government of India.

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