Nirmal Kumar Bose
| Nirmal Kumar Bose নির্মল কুমার বসু |
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| Born |
22 January 1901 Kolkata, Bengal, British India |
| Died | 15 October 1972 (aged 71) Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Anthropologist, Social worker |
Nirmal Kumar Bose (Bengali: নির্মল কুমার বসু) (22 January 1901 – 15 October 1972) was a leading Indian anthropologist, who played a formative role in "building an Indian Tradition in Anthropology". A humanist scholar with a broad range of interests, he was also a leading sociologist, urbanist, Gandhian, and educationist. Also active in the Indian freedom struggle with Mahatma Gandhi, he was imprisoned in 1931 during the Salt Satyagraha.
He attended the Puri Zilla School, the Scottish Church College, and later the Presidency College, which was then affiliated with the University of Calcutta. He dropped out of the MSc program in geology as a gesture of solidarity with the Non Cooperation Movement. Later he would earn an MSc degree in anthropology from the University of Calcutta.
Bose was originally from Kolkata. His anthropological work was founded on extensive field work and had a pragmatic prescriptive basis, and was considered radical against the background of earlier descriptive work by British anthropologists.
His initial work was among the Juang of Orissa, as part of his master's work at Calcutta University (1924–25). In 1929, he brought out Cultural Anthropology, presenting a developing world view of anthropology and culture. 1932 saw the publication of Canons of Orissan architecture, announcing his interest in art and architecture. His sociological interests were reflected in Some aspects of caste in Bengal (1958), and his urbanist interests in Calcutta 1964: a social survey (1968) and Anthropology and some Indian problems (1972).
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