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ANT-HC-6016 

Forensic Anthropology 

Credit 6 (Theory: 4; Practical: 2) 

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Suggested Readings: 

1. Bass W.M. (1971). Human Osteology: A Laboratory and Field manual of the Human Skeleton. 

Columbia: Special Publications Missouri Archaeological Society. 

2. Black S. and Ferguson E. (2011). Forensic Anthropology 2000 to 2010.CRC Press, London. 

3. Byers, S. N. (2008). Forensic Anthropology. Boston: Pearson Education LTD. 

4. Gunn A. (2009) Essential Forensic Biology (2nd ed). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell 

5. Modi, R. B. J. P. (2013). A Textbook of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology. Elsevier. 

6. Reddy V. R. (1985). Dental Anthropology, Inter-India Publication, New Delhi. 

7. Spencer, C. (2004). Genetic Testimony: A Guide to Forensic DNA Profiling, Pearson, New 

Delhi. 

8. Vats Y., Dhall J.K. and Kapoor A.K. (2011). Gender Variation in Morphological Patterns of 

Lip Prints among some North Indian Population. J. Forensic Odontology, 4: 11-15. 

9. Wilkinson, C. (2004). Forensic facial reconstruction. Cambridge University Press.

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ANT-HC-6026 

Anthropology of India 

Credit 6 (Theory: 4; Practical: 2)

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 Suggested Reading 

1. Nicholas D. (2001). Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern 

India. Princeton University Press. 

2. Bernard CS. (2000). India: The Social Anthropology of Civilization. Delhi: 

Oxford University Press. 

3. Bhasin MK, Watter H and Danker-Hopfe H. (1994). People of India – An Investigation of Biological variability in Ecological, Ethno-economic and Linguistic Groups. Kamla Raj Enterprises, Delhi

4. Lopez DS. (1995). Religions of India in Practice. Princeton University Press 

5. Gupta D. Social Stratification. Delhi: Oxford University Press. 

6. Karve I. (1961). Hindu Society: An Interpretation. Poona : Deccan College 

7. Guha BS. (1931). The racial attributes of people of India. In: Census of India, 

1931, vol I, Part III (BPO, Simla) 

8. Trautmann TR (2011). India: Brief history of Civilization. Oxford University 

Press: Delhi 

9. Vidyarthi LP and Rai BK. (1976).The tribal culture of India. Concept Publishing 

Co, Delhi. 

10. Haddon AC. (1929). The Races of man. Cambridge University, London. 

11. Kapoor A.K. (1992). Genetic Diversity among Himalayan Human Populations. 

M/S Vinod Publishers, Jammu 

12. Majumdar DN. (1901). Races and Culture of India. Asia Publishing House, Bombay 

13. Dube SC. (1992). Indian Society. National Book Trust, India : New Delhi. 

14. Dumont L. (1980). Homo Hierachicus. University of Chicagon Press. 

15. Guha B.S. (1931). The racial attributes of people of India. In : Census of India, 1931, 

vol I, Part III (BPO, Simla) 

16. Malhotra K.C. (1978). Morphological Composition of people of India. J. Human Evolution. 

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ANT-HE-6016 

Dissertation 

Credit 6

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ANT-HE-6026 

Human Genetics 

Credit 6 (Theory: 4; Practical: 2)

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Suggested Readings: 

1. Strachan T and Read AP. (2004). Human Molecular Genetics. Garland Science 

2. Brown TA. (2007). Genomes. Garland Science. 

3. Griffiths AJF. (2002). Modern Genetic Analysis: Integrating Genes and 

Genomes. WH Freeman Press. 

4. Griffiths AJF, Wessler SR, Carroll SB, Doebley J. (2011). An Introduction to 

Genetic Analysis. Macmillan Higher Education.

5. Cavalli-sforza LL, Menozzi P, Piazza A (1994). The History and Geography of 

Human Genes. Princeton University. 

6. Giblett, ER. (1969). Genetic Markers in Human Blood. Blackwell Scietific, Oxford. 

7. Cummings MR (2011). Human Heredity: Principles and Issues. Brooks/Cole, 

Cengage Learning 

8. Jobling M, Hurls M and Tyler-Smith C. (2004). Human Evolutionary Genetics: 

Origins, Peoples & Disease. New York: Garland Science. 

9. Lewis R. (2009). Human Genetics: Concepts and Application. The 

McGraw−Hill Companies, Inc. 

10. Patch C. (2005). Applied Genetics in Healthcare. Taylor & Francis Group 

11. Vogel F. and Motulsky A.G. (1996). Human Genetics. Springer, 3rd revised edition. 

12. Snustad .D.P. and Simmons M.J. (2006). Principles of Genetics, Fourth 

Edition, John Wiley & Sons USA 

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ANT-HE-6036 

Demographic Anthropology

Credit 6 (Theory: 4; Practical: 2)

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Suggested Readings 

1. Bhende A. and Kaniikar, T. (2006) Principles of Population Studies. Himalaya 

Publishing House. Mumbai (All Units, It covers most topics) 

2. Caldwell J.C. (2006). Demographic Transition Theory. Springer. 

3. Census of India (2001,2011), SRS bulletin (2013), NFHS (2006 ), CRS, NSSO 

(Can be seen from browsing net) 

4. Gautam R.K., Kshatriya, G.K. and Kapoor A.K. (2010) Population Ecology and 

Family Planning. Serials publications. New Delhi. 

5. Howell N. (1986) Demographic Anthropology. Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 15: 219-246 

6. Kshatriya G.K. (2000). Ecology and health with special reference to Indian tribes. 

Human Ecology special volume 9:229-245. 

7. Kshatriya G.K., Rajesh, G. and Kapoor , A.K. (2010) Population Characteristics 

of Desert Ecology. VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Gmbh and Co., Germany. 

8. Misra BD (1982). An introduction to the study of population. South Asia publ. 

ltd. New Delhi. 

9. National Population Policy http://populationcommission.nic.in/npp.htm 

10. Park K. (2000) Text book of Preventive and Social Medicine. Banarsidas 

Bhanot, Jabalpur. 

11. Patra P.K. and Kapoor, A.K. (2009) Demography And Development Dynamics 

in a Primitive Tribe of Himalayas. International Book Distributors, Dehradun 

12. Riley N.E. and Mc Carthy, J. (2003) Demography in the Age of the 

Postmodern. Cambridge University press. UK. Pages 1-13 and 32-98 

13. Sharma A.K. (1979) Demographic transition: A Determinant of Urbanization. 

Social Change 9: 13-17. 

14. Srivastava O.S. (1996) Demographic and Population Studies. Vikas Publishing 

House, India 

15. Zubrow E.B.W. (1976) Demographic anthropology. Quantitative  approaches. 

University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. 

16. http://human-nature.com/dm/chap3.html 

17. http://biography.yourdictionary.com/john-graunt 

http://www.marathon.uwc.edu/geography/demotrans/demtran.htm

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