Anthropometric study on the Indian subcontinent started in the year 1868. But systematic studies in India began in last decade of the nineteenth century. The present volume is a maiden attempt on the morphological variation among the Bhil and the Garasia of South Rajasthan. The first chapter of the book deals with the land, people and objectives of the study. The second chapter is devoted to describing the early history of anthropometric study, physical anthropological studies in Rajasthan and review of physical anthropological studies among the Bhil and the Garasia. The subsequent chapters deal with the materials and methods, morphological traits, regional variation, comparative study and findings. The book will be a useful addition to the physical anthropologist and research scholars.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR M. Haque
Dr. M. Haque: M.Sc., Ph.D. attached to the Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata. He joined the organisation in 1977 and worked in Various National and regional Projects. In connection with such research project he has carried out field investigation in rural, urban and tribal belt of West Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Tripura, Sikkim, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Andaman and Nicobar islands. He has published about 40 anthropological research papers and author of two books. He is the member of the learned societies like Indian anthropological Association Indian Anthropological Society, Indian Institute of Bio-Social Research and Development, Indian Science Congress Association, Indian Society of Human Genetics, Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society, Sarat Chandra Roy Institute of Anthropological Studies and Society for Anthropological and Archaeo logical Studies. He has contributed a lot to the physical anthropology.
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