Anthropology is one of the very vibrant subjects in India and Indian anthropologists will be second to American Anthropologists in terms of numbers. The institutions teaching anthropology are nearly touching a half-century. India has already completed a century of teaching of anthropology. Besides, India is one of the few countries to have an exclusive public funded research organization named Anthropological Survey of India completing 77 years of its glorious existence. In the present volume, comprehensive information is being given on many important anthropologists who have made significant contribution in enriching the theory and subject matter of Indian anthropology. Most of the entries have been penned by the colleagues and students of the anthropologist making the present volume a very unique memoir in anthropology. About the Author: P.C. Joshi (B.Sc. (Hons.), M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology, Delhi University) is the former Pro Vice-Chancellor and officiating Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi. He has been the Head of the Department in Anthropology in the University of Delhi. He served as head of the Department of Anthropology in various institutions like HNB Garhwal University and Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences. He has organized fifteen Conferences included one in the University of Hue, Vietnam in the year 2010. He is the current president of the Society for Indian Medical Anthropology, Mysore. Prasanna K. Nayak is a former professor of anthropology at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He served as Director of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Research and Training Institute (SCSTRI) and established the Museum of Tribal Arts and Crafts. He was also chairman of the Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies (NKCDS), Bhubaneswar. He was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Free University of Berlin and Baden Wuertemberg fellow at the University of Heidelberg also ICCR Fellow, University of Vienna.