Anthropology & Museums In India From The Colonial Period To The Contemporary Times By Prof Kishor Kumar Basa – AIF Guest Lecture Series (23 Jan 2025)
Prof. Basa completed his Ph. D. in Archaeology from the University of London and was a Commonwealth Academic Staff, Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge. A former Head, Department of Anthropology, Utkal University, Prof. Basa has the rare distinction of heading seven leading organisations of the country, which include Indira Gandhi Rastriya Manav
Sangrahalaya (Bhopal), Indian Museum (Kolkata), Anthropological Survey of India, Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University (Baripada), Fakir Mohan University (Balasore), Archaeological Survey of India and National Monuments Authority. Recipient of two Gold Medals – the Surajmal Saha Memorial Gold Medal and Prof. Ghanshyam Das Memorial Gold Medal, Prof. Basa was also a Tagore National Fellow, Ministry of Culture. He has delivered 12 memorial lectures in various parts of the country, has published widely in the fields of anthropology, archaeology and museum studies. He has excavated the sites of Malikhoja, Bang-Harirajpur and Gouranga Patana in Odisha, and is the Founder Editor of the journal Humankind. At present, he is the Chairman, Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists (INCAA), and Chairman of National Monuments Authority.