Anthropological Survey of India

Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) is the only apex Indian Government Organization to pursue Anthropological studies under Government setup. It works primarily in the fields of physical anthropology and cultural anthropology,[1] maintaining a strong focus on biological and cultural diversity among the indigenous populations. It also attempts to document the cultures of different ethnic communities. Apart from this, it has several wings like Linguistics, Statistics, Human Ecology, Folklore, Biochemistry etc to understand the holistic nature of human condition.

Anthropological Survey of India
AbbreviationAnSI
Formation1945 (1945)
HeadquartersKolkata
Director
Ms Sanjukta Mudgal (IFS), Since 14th July 2022
Parent organisation
Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India
Websiteansi.gov.in

History

Anthropological Survey of India was founded in 1945 at Varanasi and shifted to the Indian Museum at Calcutta in 1948.[2]

In 1916, the Zoological and Anthropological sections of the Museum together became a new entity the Zoological Survey of India. Later, in 1945, the Anthropology section formed into an independent body, the Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI),[3] with Biraja Sankar Guha as the first Director and Verrier Elwin, as first Deputy Director.

Operating under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, its Head Quarter is in Kolkata and has seven regional centers at Kolkata (Eastern Regional Center having a field station at Ranchi), Port Blair(Andaman and Nicobar Regional Center), Shillong (North-east Regional Center), Dehra Dun (North-West Regional Center having a camp office at New Delhi), Udaipur (Western Regional Center), Nagpur (Central Regional Center having a field station at Sagar, Madhya Pradesh) and Mysore (Southern Regional Center having a field station at Visakhapatnam).[4] Further, Anthropological Survey of India has very high throughput DNA laboratories at Mysore, Kolkata, Nagpur and Dehradun to understand the molecular Anthropological diversity among Indian populations.

References
  1. Anthropological Survey of India Archived 25 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine Department of Education. Govt. of India.
  2. "Anthropological Survey of India history at anthsi.com". Archived from the original on 11 March 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
  3. Anthropological Survey of India Archived 2006-05-25 at the Wayback Machine (The Andamanese by George Weber).
  4. Anthropological Survey of India (ASI), Mysore Archived 22 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Swedish South Asian Studies Network. Lund University. 28 November 2007.

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