Aspects of religion in Indian society/ edited by L.P. Vidyarthi

It is a common-place observation that the seed parishes yielding place to a number of off-springs.
Professor Majumdar is dead but he is survived all over the country by his students, and all over the world by his admirers.
His death has been warmly and widely mourned all over the world, and the recognition of his work
as also his contributions to Indian Anthoropology are amply reflec- ted from the intimate references that have been made about him in the professional journals of India and abroad. Professor Majumdar was an institution in himself in Indian Anthropology, and one of his British colleagues has rightly written with feeling that it was difficult to think of Indian Anthropology without Majumdar for he had so long been Indian Anthropology" (quoted from A. A. Vol. 63 No. 2 Part 1 : 372).
Among many places and institutions, Bibar has been greatly associated with the Late Professor Majumdar. He respected Ranchi as his place of anthropological Pilgrimage, and Ranchi recognised in him a great friend of Adivasi and the most illustrious scholar of Indian Anthropology. Professor Majumdar started his apprenticeship in anthropological fieldwork under Rai Bahadur Sri S.C. Roy at Ranchi and spent many long years of his youth among the hills and jungles of Singhbhum, and worked hard to put the Tribal Bihar on the ethnolo- gical map of the world by publishing his first but theoretically sophisticated monograph on the Ho tribe of Singbhum. It was Professor Majumdar who impressed upon the Government of Bihar to start the teaching and research centre for Anthropology at Ranchi, which was later organised with his close co-operation. He also trained one of the founder lecturers (the author of these lines) of this department who was sent to him as a State Scholar of the Government of Bihar for advanced training in Anthropology. Professor Majumdar's interest in this Department did not stop with its establishment. As his follow-up programme, he continued to guide us in the best possible manner to organise teaching and research in the Department. He used to come to us very frequently every year and used to participate in the University seminars and symposia that we used to organise from time to time.