Dipak Kumar Samanta is Calcutta University’s Ph.D. And his doctoral dissertation on “the Neo-Buddhists” has been well-received. Yet his varied research concerns have led him on to work on different tribal groups of Central and Western India, in addition to his studies of pilgrimages/sacred centres.
Essentially a motivated scholar, with specialized interests in social and cultural anthropology, Dr. Samanta has the distinction of being published in almost all the leading anthropological journals in India.
Dipak Kumar Samanta
1. Life Member – Indian Anthropological Society
2. Life Member – Indian Anthropological Association
3. Member – Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society
4. Founder Life Member – Indian National Confederation and Academy of Anthropologists.