Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya on Friday organised a programme for giving away the annual IGRMS award for lifetime achievement in Anthropology and museum to renowned anthropologist Prof AC Bhagabati.
The award ceremony was organised in Guwahati in collaboration with department of anthropology, Gauhati University in the presence of a galaxy of anthropologists and social scientists. The Chief Guest of the award ceremony was Mridul Hazarika, Vice Chancellor, Gauhati University.
Hazarika handed over the award (comprising a cheque of Rs 5 lakh and a citation issued by President, Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya Samiti and Chairperson of the Executive Council) to Professor Bhagabati together with Professor Vinay kumar Srivastava, Director, Anthropological survey of India, and Professor Sarit Kumar Chaudhuri, Director, IGRMS.
On this occasion, Prof SK Chaudhuri said that Prof 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 in the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Professor Abdullah ali Ashraf, Head, Department Anthropology, Gauhati University and Dilip Singh, Joint Director, Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya were also present on the Dias. Prof Sarthak Sengupta, Prof Dilip Medhi, Prof Irshad Ali, Richa Negi, Prof Mini Bhattacharya and many other dignitaries also shared their experiences and memories with Prof 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.