ANTHROPOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA
ANTHROPOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA A premier national institution of repute, Anthropological Survey of India (ANSI) is the one and the only one of its kind anywhere in the world to pursue Anthropological research in a governmental setup. The Anthropological Survey of India's genesis was from the Zoological and Anthropological section of the Indian Museum, which became the Zoological Survey of India in 1916. In 1945, Anthropology section of the Zoological Survey was carved out to become the Anthropological Survey of India - AnSI with Dr B. S. Guha as the founding Director, appointed in 1946. The head office was shifted from Benaras to Calcutta in 1948. AnSi’s mandate is of pursuing research in socio-cultural and biological aspects of the Peoples of India in a holistic perspective, with an emphasis on the matters of contemporary relevance and National significance. Its orange colour circular logo has a minimalist depiction of human form in the centrewith its name written in Devanagari