Starting his career in the Indian Statistical Institute, he worked for a few years in Anthropological Survey of India and joined the Department of Anthropology at Columbia university in 1966.
The multi-volume series of books published from 1992 under the auspices of the government-run Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) adopted the same title as the colonial works of 1868–1875 and 1908.
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Kumar Suresh Singh, Director-General of Anthropological Survey of India and Zamindari family of Nayangaon.