Sarat Chandra Roy | |
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| Born | 4 November 1871 |
| Died | 30 April 1942 (aged 70) Ranchi, Bihar Province, British India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Other names | S. C. Roy |
| Occupation(s) | Lawyer, ethnographer, cultural anthropologist, lecturer, reader |
| Known for | Ethnography |
Sarat Chandra Roy (4 November 1871 – 30 April 1942[1]) was an Indian scholar of anthropology.[2] He is sometimes regarded as the 'father of Indian ethnography', the 'first Indian ethnographer', and as the 'first Indian anthropologist'.[3]
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- ^ Upadhyay, Vijay S. and Gaya Pandey. Indian Anthropologists - Sarat Chandra Roy: The Father of Indian Ethnography (1871–1942) in History of Anthropological Thought, Concept Publishing Company, 1993, p. 395.