Regional Cults and Rural Traditions: An Interacting Pattern of Divinity and Humanity in Rural Bengal

As a dedicated teacher and researcher in the domain of Social Science, Dr. R.M. Sarkar, M.Sc., Ph.D., D.Litt, is well-known in the global perspective. His study on the diversified aspects on human society and culture is categorically centred round broad-based participant field investigations and through which he has been able to exert a lifeful touch to the various expositions in relation to the multifarious human events. For a long time he was in close association with the evaluation work of the rehabilitation programmes among the Birhors-a primitive tribe in Chotanagpur. Dr. Sarkar took a leading part in the PRA based research and development work among the human communities in the mangrove forest infested Sundarban-Worlds heritage site. He has conducted Successfully large number research projects on the down-trodden communities under the sponsorship of the central and the State Governments. He is a prolific writer and has to his credit more than a dozen of standard books and hundreds of thematic papers published in the different journals. Dr. Sarkar has worked as active member in a number of National Committees. He is intimately associated with many academic institutions of the country. He has been editing efficiently Man in India-the premier international journal of anthropology for 19 years. Of late, has been taken the responsibility of editing another wide-circulated journal of the country-Journal of Social anthropology