The Scope of Social Anthropology in the Study of Indian Society

Bombay: Asia Publishing House, 1962. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. Offprint from Indian Anthropology: Essays in memory of D N Majumdar, (1962), pp 254-265. In very good condition, in buff card wrappers with rust marks from the staples but internally very fresh. Signed to upper cover "with compliments F G Bailey". From the collection of Kenneth Robinson (1914-2005), a distinguished civil servant who became an expert on colonial government and administration. He was closely involved in international aspects of postwar planning, including former colonies, in south-West Africa (now Namibia), and became the Commonwealth Office expert on French West Africa. He became assistant secretary in the CO in 1946 (and head of the West African department), but resigned in 1948 to become reader in Commonwealth government at Oxford and subsequently director and professor of commonwealth affairs at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong from 1965 to 1972. Very Good 1962