About Us

From the Director Sir:

Dear Aspirants 

Anthropology is the comparative study of culture and society. We ask big questions about what we have in common, and what makes us different. Anthropology explores what it is to be human and what it means to live in a human society. 

Why are some people rich and powerful while others are not? What gives religious beliefs such a strong hold on the human imagination? Can people from different cultural backgrounds be said to live in "different worlds"? What makes children turn out as they do? How are technologies transforming our relationships both to each other and to nature? 

Why Study Anthropology

We carry out research on the entire range of human societies. To study anthropology is thus to study the world in one degree. Our research starts from the ground up: we start by embedding ourselves  NOW in the lives of ordinary people – be they stock market traders in mumbai, fishermen in Malabar coast of Kerala, or Maoist rebels in Naxalite belt of India.

Anthropology is a highly rewarding – even life changing – subject . Here you will be pushed to question many of your core assumptions and exposed to radically different ways of thinking. 

In our globalised world understanding the social and cultural foundations of human life has taken on a real urgency. Can people from different backgrounds learn to get along with each other? Is the "mixing of cultures" a new phenomenon, or something that has always happened? What are its implications? Will modernisation and development bring traditional modes of human existence to an end?  If so, should we welcome or try to stop this?

Through exploring such questions, you will learn how to think critically as well as acquiring specific skills in the analysis of social and cultural phenomena. You will also learn the craft of ethnography – the method that anthropologists have pioneered for collecting  data about human societies and cultures. 

Here at UPSC FORUM you will learn Anthropology optional for UPSC CIVIL SERVICES Examination Mains Examination. We train you  how to write clearly and persuasively, how to give engaging presentations, and how to argue your case in your answers with the help of simplified explanationso that you have a crystal clear view of the notion of the Anthropology subject.

Our aim is to lay the right foundation and guide aspirants to understand the demand of the UPSC and IAS exam.

I wish that all the aspirants have a bright future and playing a constructive role in the making of our loving nation.

Thanks & Best Wishes

Director

UPSC FORUM