Man in India

*Man in India*
Publication details
Discipline	Anthropology, archaeology, linguistics and folk-culture
Language	English
History	1921–present
Publisher	Serials Publications Pvt. Ltd. (India)
Frequency	Quarterly
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4	Man India
Indexing
ISSN	0025-1569
OCLC no.	561633210
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Man in India is an academic journal in anthropology with a focus on South Asia. The scope of the publication includes biological and sociocultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and folk culture. It is currently published by Serials Publications Pvt. Ltd. India.

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Outline History
Types Archaeological Biological Cultural Linguistic Social
Archaeological Aerial Aviation Battlefield Biblical Bioarchaeological Environmental Ethnoarchaeological Experimental Feminist Forensic Maritime Paleoethnobotanical Zooarchaeological
Biological Anthrozoological Biocultural Evolutionary Forensic Molecular Neurological Nutritional Paleoanthropological Primatological
Social Cultural Applied Art Christian Cognitive Cyborg Development Digital Ecological Environmental Economic Political economy Feminist Food Historical Human rights Institutional Kinship Legal Media Medical Museums Musical Political Psychological Public Religion Symbolic Transpersonal Urban Visual
Linguistic Anthropological Descriptive Ethnological Ethnopoetical Historical Ideology Semiotic Sociological
Research framework Anthropometry Ethnography cyber Ethnology Cross-cultural comparison Participant observation Holism Reflexivity Thick description Cultural relativism Ethnocentrism Emic and etic
Key concepts Culture Development Ethnicity Evolution sociocultural Gender Kinship and descent Meme Prehistory Race Society Value Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Key theories Actor–network theory Alliance theory Boasian anthropology Cross-cultural studies Cultural materialism Culture theory Diffusionism Feminism Functionalism Historical particularism Historical materialism Interpretive Performance studies Political economy Practice theory Structuralism Post-structuralism Systems theory
Lists Anthropologists by nationality Anthropology by year Bibliography Journals List of indigenous peoples Organizations

History

Man in India was first published in 1921 by Sarat Chandra Roy as the first anthropological journal in India.^[1]

Sumahan Bandyopadhyay is the current editor of the journal.^[2] Previous editors include Verrier Elwin and Nirmal Kumar Bose.

References

↑ 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. 397-8.
↑ "ARF India". www.arfjournals.com. Retrieved 2026-07-29.