Anthropologist A C Bhagabati honoured with IGRMS award
   Date :04-May-2019
Staff Reporter
Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS) organised a programme for giving away the annual IGRMS award for lifetime achievement in Anthropology and Museum on Friday.
 

 
 
This award was given to the renowned anthropologist Professor A C Bhagabati. The award ceremony was organised on Friday in Guwahati in collaboration with Department of Anthropology, Gauhati University in the presence of Galaxy of anthropologists and social scientists.
 
The chief guest in the award ceremony was Dr Mridul Hazarika, Vice-Chancellor, Gauhati University. Dr Hazarika handed over the award (comprising of a cheque of Rs. Five lakh and a citation issued by President, Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya Samiti and Chairperson of the Executive Council) to Professor Bhagabati along with Professor Vinay Kumar Srivastava, Director, Anthropological survey of India, and Professor Sarit Kumar Chaudhary, Director, IGRMS. On this occasion, Professor S K Chaudhary, said that, Professor Bhagabati was the former Vice-Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh University and former professor of Anthropology, Guwahati University.
He has been working in the field of academics and is actively engaged as a field anthropologist for the last 50 years. He pursued his doctoral research on Maoris from University of Auckland, New Zealand.
 
On this occasion, Professor Abdullah Ali Ashraf, Head, Department Anthropology, Gauhati University and Dilip Singh, Joint Director, Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya was also present on the Dias. Professor Sarthak Sengupta, Professor Dilip Medhi, Professor Irshad Ali, Dr Richa Negi, Professor Mini Bhattacharya and many other dignitaries also shared their experiences and memories with Professor Bhagabati.
 
The annual IGRMS award for lifetime achievement in Anthropology and Museum has been instituted to honour contributions of one selected scholar/ academician every year for his/her lifetime outstanding contribution in the broad area of Anthropological Research and Anthropological Museum movement in depiction of story of mankind in time and space.
 
The idea is to infuse vigour among scholars/ academicians to enrich academic/ managerial excellence in the related area of research and museum movement to present and preserve varieties of Indian culture and its underlying unity.