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{{Short description|Indian anthropologist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Prabodh Kumar Bhowmick
| image = File:Professor Prabodh Kumar Bhowmik.jpg
| birth_date = 6 September 1926
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2003|02|05|1926|df=y}}
| education = [[Bangabasi College]] (I.Sc.)
[[University of Calcutta]] (B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D, D.Sc)
| occupation = Anthropologist, social work
}}
'''Prabodh Kumar Bhowmick''' (6 September 1926 – 5 February 2003) was an Indian [[anthropologist]] from [[West Bengal]]. He conducted his work on the [[Lodha people|Lodha tribe]] of West Bengal.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=Professor P.K. Bhowmick: a legendary leader in Indian anthropology |date=2021 |isbn=978-81-950909-2-1 |language=English |oclc=1261773448|last1=Bhowmick |first1=Pradip Kumar |last2=Manna |first2=Samita |last3=Coomar |first3=Palash Chandra |publisher=Abhijeet Publications }}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Legacy of Midnapore - Bidisha : A social laboratory within an Ashramic fold |url=https://www.midnapore.in/bidisha/bidisha.html |access-date=2022-03-11 |website=www.midnapore.in|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250614134012/https://www.midnapore.in/bidisha/bidisha.html|archive-date=14 June 2025}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Sahay |first=Vijoy S |date=July 2003 |title=Dramatis Personae of Indian Anthropology Messiah of the Lodhas: Professor P K Bhowmick M.Sc. Ph.D., D.Sc. (1926- 2003) |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0976343020030211 |journal=The Oriental Anthropologist |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=184–199 |doi=10.1177/0976343020030211 |s2cid=203381047 |issn=0972-558X|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Bhowmick, P. K. Overview |url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81062277/ |access-date=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250126225710/http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n81062277/|archive-date=26 January 2025}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Bhowmick was born on 6 September 1926, in Amdabad village. He was the third of eight children born to Jogendranath and Swaryamoyee Devi.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":5">{{Cite journal |last=Duary |first=Nabakumar |title=Professor Probodh Kumar Bhowmick: A Relentless Activist for the Uplift of the Lodhas of West Bengal |url=https://www.arfjournals.com/image/catalog/Journals%20Papers/SAAN/2020/No%201%20(202)/10-Nabakumar%20Duary.pdf |journal=South Asian Anthropologist |year=2020 |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=87–92 [88]}}</ref>

== Education ==
Bhowmick's early education took place at ''Kalagachia Jagadish Vidyapith'', an early national school established in the [[Midnapore district]] in 1921. He pursued higher education in [[anthropology]], completing his ''Indian School Certificate'' in 1949 from the [[Bangabasi College]] ([[Kolkata]]) and his [[Bachelor of Science]] and [[Master of Science]] in 1951 from the [[University of Calcutta]]. His teachers included anthropologists [[Tarak Chandra Das]] and [[Nirmal Kumar Bose]]. He later earned his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in 1961, focusing on the socio-economic life of the [[Lodha people|Lodha tribe]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Manna |first=Professor Samita |date=2024-02-06 |title=Legacy Of a Legendary Field Anthropologist |url=https://www.anthropologyindiaforum.org/post/legacy-of-a-legendary-field-anthropologist |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=UIAF |language=en|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250317010312/https://www.anthropologyindiaforum.org/post/legacy-of-a-legendary-field-anthropologist|archive-date=17 March 2025}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Biswas |first1=Subir |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HHNjEQAAQBAJ&dq=birendranath+sasmal&pg=PA39 |title=Writings on Indian Anthropology and Anthropologists |last2=Mukhopadhyay |first2=Barun |last3=Das |first3=Rajat Kanti |date=2023-01-01 |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |isbn=978-93-5594-517-4 |language=en}}</ref>

== Contributions and legacy ==
Bhowmick's work in applied [[anthropology]] focused on [[Indigenous peoples|indigenous]] communities. He was awarded [[Doctor of Science]] in social anthropology.<ref>{{Cite web |title=WorldCat.org |url=https://search.worldcat.org/ |access-date=2026-04-16 |website=search.worldcat.org |language=en}}</ref> His Doctor of Philosophy research examined the [[Lodha people|Lodhas]], a [[Denotified Tribes|denotified]] tribe in [[West Bengal]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":5" />

He founded BIDISA ''(Bureau for Integrated Development of Indigenous and Sub-Human Aided Groups)'', a non-governmental organization in West Bengal.<ref name=":2" />

He taught anthropology at the [[University of Calcutta]], and other institutions, as a professor. He later served as Head of the Post-graduate Department of Anthropology and Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Calcutta.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":3" /> During his tenure, he published journal articles and edited volumes on tribal studies, rural development, and applied anthropology.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":5" />

== Death ==
Bhowmick died on 5 February 2003, at the age of 76, after being injured when a person fell on him from a moving bus.<ref name=":5"/>

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