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| − | | address = | + | | address = Church Road, Ranchi, Ranchi, Chota-Nagpur, (India) BNR |
| − | | occupation = | + | | occupation = legal |
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| − | | elected_AI = | + | | elected_AI = 1913 |
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| − | | membership = ordinary fellow | + | | membership = Local Correspondent (Ranchi India)<br />ordinary fellow |
| − | | left = | + | | left = 1942 deceased |
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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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=== House Notes === | === House Notes === | ||
| − | + | 1914.02.10 Mr S. O’Malley and Baba Sarat Chandra Roy were nominated [as Local Correspondents]<br />1914.02.24 Mr S. O’Malley and Baba Sarat Chandra Roy were elected Local Correspondents.<br />1936.02.25 The following were reappointed Local Correspondents, their appointment dating from 1936: ... Rai Bahadur Sarat Chandra Roy (Ranchi India) ....<br />.<br /><br />legal profession (given up years ago) [census]<br /><br />Rai Bahadur Sarat Chundra OR Babu Sarat Chundra | |
=== Notes From Elsewhere === | === Notes From Elsewhere === | ||
| − | + | Sarat Chandra Roy (1871–1942) was a Bengali speaking Indian scholar of anthropology. He is widely regarded as the father of Indian ethnography, the first Indian ethnographer, and as the first Indian anthropologist.[1]<br />Born in 4 November 1871 to Purna Chandra Roy, a member of the Bengal Judicial Service, in a village in Khulna district (now in Bangladesh), young Sarat came in contact with tribal people after his father was posted in Purulia. After his father's death in 1885, he was educated at his maternal uncle's home in Calcutta. In 1892, he graduated in English literature from the General Assembly's Institution (now Scottish Church College). He earned a postgraduate degree in English from the same institution, and subsequently studied law at the Ripon College (now Surendranath College). He had worked for some time as a headmaster at the Mymensingh High School, and later as a principal at the GEL Mission High School in Ranchi. In Ranchi, he became aware of the plight of the tribals. He left teaching and started practicing as a lawyer and became a pleader in the district court in the 24 Parganas in Calcutta in 1897. A year later he moved to Ranchi, where he practiced at the court of the judicial commissioner in Ranchi.[2]<br />His interest into the plight of the "tribal" people developed in the course of his visits as a lawyer, in the interior areas of the Chota Nagpur Division. He was deeply moved by the plight of the Munda, Oraon and other tribal groups, who were subjected to the continued oppression by an apathetic colonial administration, and by a general contempt towards them in courts of law, as "upper-caste" Hindu lawyers had little knowledge of their customs, religions, customary laws and languages. Keeping all this in perspective, he decided to spend years and decades among tribal folks to study their languages, conduct ethnography, and interpret their customs, practices, religion and laws for the benefit of humanity, and also for the established system of colonial civil jurisprudence. In so doing, he wrote pioneering monographs, that would set the ground for broader understanding and future research. Thus although he was not formally trained in either ethnology or anthropology, he is regarded the first Indian ethnologist, or ethnographer or an Indian anthropologist.[3]<br />In his later years, he spent his time editing Man in India and in other journals, writing and lecturing at the newly established anthropology department at the University of Calcutta, and serving as a reader at Patna University.[4]<br />Kaisar-i-Hind Silver Medal, 1913 Roy Bahadur, 1919 Elected as honorary member of the Folklore Society of London, being the only Indian to be awarded thus Elected as president of the Anthropological Section in the Indian Science Congress Elected as president of the Anthropology section of the All India Oriental Conference, 1932 Elected as president of the Folklore section of the All India Oriental Conference, 1933 Elected as member of the Council d'Honour of the International Congress of Ethnological Sciences Foundation Fellow of National Institute of Sciences Foundation Fellow of Patna University The Indian Science Congress awarded him with a commemorative volume of essays in anthropology.[8] The Sarat Chandra Roy Institute of Anthropological Studies in Ranchi, established in 1979, commemorates his name.[9]<br /> | |
== Publications == | == Publications == | ||
=== External Publications === | === External Publications === | ||
| − | + | The Mundas and their country, 1912<br />The Oraons of Chota-Nagpur, 1915<br />Principles and methods of physical anthropology<br />The Birhors, 1925<br />Oraon religion and customs, 1928<br />The hill Bhuiyas of Orissa, 1935<br />The Kharias. 2 vols, 1937<br />Caste, race and religian in India | |
=== House Publications === | === House Publications === | ||
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House Notes
1914.02.10 Mr S. O’Malley and Baba Sarat Chandra Roy were nominated [as Local Correspondents]
1914.02.24 Mr S. O’Malley and Baba Sarat Chandra Roy were elected Local Correspondents.
1936.02.25 The following were reappointed Local Correspondents, their appointment dating from 1936: ... Rai Bahadur Sarat Chandra Roy (Ranchi India) ....
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legal profession (given up years ago) [census]
Rai Bahadur Sarat Chundra OR Babu Sarat Chundra
Notes From Elsewhere
Sarat Chandra Roy (1871–1942) was a Bengali speaking Indian scholar of anthropology. He is widely regarded as the father of Indian ethnography, the first Indian ethnographer, and as the first Indian anthropologist.[1]
Born in 4 November 1871 to Purna Chandra Roy, a member of the Bengal Judicial Service, in a village in Khulna district (now in Bangladesh), young Sarat came in contact with tribal people after his father was posted in Purulia. After his father's death in 1885, he was educated at his maternal uncle's home in Calcutta. In 1892, he graduated in English literature from the General Assembly's Institution (now Scottish Church College). He earned a postgraduate degree in English from the same institution, and subsequently studied law at the Ripon College (now Surendranath College). He had worked for some time as a headmaster at the Mymensingh High School, and later as a principal at the GEL Mission High School in Ranchi. In Ranchi, he became aware of the plight of the tribals. He left teaching and started practicing as a lawyer and became a pleader in the district court in the 24 Parganas in Calcutta in 1897. A year later he moved to Ranchi, where he practiced at the court of the judicial commissioner in Ranchi.[2]
His interest into the plight of the "tribal" people developed in the course of his visits as a lawyer, in the interior areas of the Chota Nagpur Division. He was deeply moved by the plight of the Munda, Oraon and other tribal groups, who were subjected to the continued oppression by an apathetic colonial administration, and by a general contempt towards them in courts of law, as "upper-caste" Hindu lawyers had little knowledge of their customs, religions, customary laws and languages. Keeping all this in perspective, he decided to spend years and decades among tribal folks to study their languages, conduct ethnography, and interpret their customs, practices, religion and laws for the benefit of humanity, and also for the established system of colonial civil jurisprudence. In so doing, he wrote pioneering monographs, that would set the ground for broader understanding and future research. Thus although he was not formally trained in either ethnology or anthropology, he is regarded the first Indian ethnologist, or ethnographer or an Indian anthropologist.[3]
In his later years, he spent his time editing Man in India and in other journals, writing and lecturing at the newly established anthropology department at the University of Calcutta, and serving as a reader at Patna University.[4]
Kaisar-i-Hind Silver Medal, 1913 Roy Bahadur, 1919 Elected as honorary member of the Folklore Society of London, being the only Indian to be awarded thus Elected as president of the Anthropological Section in the Indian Science Congress Elected as president of the Anthropology section of the All India Oriental Conference, 1932 Elected as president of the Folklore section of the All India Oriental Conference, 1933 Elected as member of the Council d'Honour of the International Congress of Ethnological Sciences Foundation Fellow of National Institute of Sciences Foundation Fellow of Patna University The Indian Science Congress awarded him with a commemorative volume of essays in anthropology.[8] The Sarat Chandra Roy Institute of Anthropological Studies in Ranchi, established in 1979, commemorates his name.[9]
Publications
External Publications
The Mundas and their country, 1912
The Oraons of Chota-Nagpur, 1915
Principles and methods of physical anthropology
The Birhors, 1925
Oraon religion and customs, 1928
The hill Bhuiyas of Orissa, 1935
The Kharias. 2 vols, 1937
Caste, race and religian in India
House Publications
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