Director of the Tribal Research Institute B.K.Roy Burman passed away

B.K.Roy Burman passed away on 26 June 2012. He was anthropologist and social scientist. B.K. Roy was born in Bangladesh in the year 1922. He served as Director of the Tribal Research Institute.

He was the former visiting faculty of Jawaharlal Nehru University and Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. He was the Professor at Visva-Bharati University. He was an ex-officio Director of the Council of Social Development. Prof. Burman served as the chairman of numerous international, national and State-level committees.

He was associated with non-government organizations and worked for the Scheduled Tribes. In addition, he had worked as the chairman of the Futorology Commission of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences.  In addition, he was the founder-president of the Network of Practicing Anthropologists and he had served as Deputy Registrar-General of the Census and Officer on Special Duty . He was the head of the Social Studies Division of the Registrar- General of India. He chaired the Union Planning Commission’s Study Group on Land Holding Systems of Tribals and the Union Home Ministry’s Committee on Forest and Tribals Backward Classes Unit.