Autor: K. S. Singh

A.K. Kalla (b.1942) is a Reader in the Department of Anthropology of the University of Delhi, and has succeeded late Prof. L.P. Vidyarthi, as President of Indian Anthropological Association (Regd.) Dr. Kalla is the author of the book „Kaahmiri Pandits and their Diversity” and about 40 research articles published in Indian are international journals. He has directed U.G.C. sponsored research projects, and is presently directing an Indo-German research project on „Anthropological Study of Variaiton in Cranlo Spinal Fusion”. Dr. Kalla was invited by the Seventh International Congress of Human Genetics (Berlin – Sept. 21-26, 1986) to present an invited paper. K.S. Singh (b.1935) has spent many years servicing and studying backward communities in middle India. He was fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (1970) and Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow (1970-72). As Director of the Anthropological Survey of Inganised many all-India surveys to generate the profiles of tribal society. He has written about 200 papers and reports and three books: Birsa Munda and His Movement in Chotanagpur, (1983) The Indian Famine (1967) : A study in Crisis and Change (1975), and Tribal Society of Indian (1985). He edited Tribal Situation in India (1976) for the Indian Institute of Advanced Study and two volumes on Tribal Movements and Economies of the Tribes and their Transformation. He has also introduced W.G. Acher”s Santal Laws and Justice (Concept 1983). Currently, he is Director-General of the Anthropological Survey of Indian.