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.