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Surajit Chandra Sinha is an Indian administrator who served as the Chief Secretary of West Bengal from 1985 to 1989. He was born on 1 August 1926 in Durgapur, Bengal Presidency, British India. He completed his schooling from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata and obtained a degree in Economics from the University of Calcutta. He began his career as a lecturer in Economics at the University of Calcutta in 1950. He then joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1952 and served in various capacities in the West Bengal government. He was appointed as the Chief Secretary of West Bengal in 1985 and served in the post until 1989. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1989 for his services to the nation. He is also a recipient of the West Bengal Government's highest civilian award, the Banga Bhushan. Surajit Chandra Sinha is 76 years old as of 2021. He stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m). He is married and has two children. His net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.

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Occupation Anthropologist, administrator
Age 76 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 1 August, 1926
Birthday 1 August
Birthplace Durgapur, Bengal Presidency, British India
Date of death (2002-02-27) Santiniketan, West Bengal, India
Died Place Santiniketan, West Bengal, India
Nationality India

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1993

He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1993 and died after a prolonged illness in 2002.

1965

Sinha distinguished himself in the field of social and cultural anthropology. Upon returning to India from the United States, he continued to conduct field research. His main area of interest were Indian tribes, especially the Bhumij tribe in central India. While in USA, Sinha did a unique field study in an American village on religion. His research report entitled "Religion in an Affluent Society" was published in Current Anthropology. Surajit Sinha's original contribution in Indian anthropology could be found in his articles on 'Tribe-Caste and Tribe-Peasant Continua in Central India'(1965), 'State formation and Rajput myth in Tribal Central India'(1962) and 'Bhumij-Kshatriya social movement in south Manbhum(1959) in which he viewed tribes and castes not as separate and isolated social and cultural categories but as parts of the greater Indian civilization in an evolutionary scheme under which formation of the early states in India took place. Sinha was basically a pioneering historical anthropologist of India who combined field and archival data in a very early period of Indian anthropology.

1926

Surajit Chandra Sinha (1 August 1926 – 27 February 2002) was an Indian anthropologist.