''Man in India'' is a journal on anthropology with a focus on

South Asia South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethno-cultural terms. The region consists of the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.;;;;; ...

. Its scope includes biological and

sociocultural Sociocultural evolution, sociocultural evolutionism or social evolution are theories of sociobiology and cultural evolution that describe how societies and culture change over time. Whereas sociocultural development traces processes that tend t ...

anthropology, archaeology, linguistics and folk-culture. It is currently published by Serials Publications Pvt. Ltd., a publisher listed on

Beall's list Beall's List was a prominent list of predatory open-access publishers that was maintained by University of Colorado librarian Jeffrey Beall on his blog ''Scholarly Open Access''. The list aimed to document open-access publishers who did not perf ...

of predatory publishers before it was taken down in 2017.

History

It is the first anthropological journal to have been started in India and was started by Sarat Chandra Roy in 1921.Upadhyay, Vijay S. and Gaya Pandey. ''Indian Anthropologists - Sarat Chandra Roy: The Father of Indian Ethnography (1871–1942)'' in ''History of Anthropological Thought'', Concept Publishing Company, 1993, p. 397-8. It was edited by Nirmal Kumar Bose from 1951 to 1972. Dr. Sumahan Bandyopadhyay is the present editor of this international journal.

References

Anthropology journals Indology journals English-language journals Publications established in 1921 {{anthropology-journal-stub