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The discipline anthropology is Science of man. One has to understand man or human-being through various dimensions viz. social-cultural attributes, through physical aspect of human -being and its antecedents through palaeo-anthropological approach. The administrators of British India strongly felt that they could only smoothly rule this sub-continent if they were able to know the diverse religious beliefs, customs, customary laws and habits of Indian citizens. Because in this subcontinent diverse cultural attributes with diverse ethnic boundaries are harmoniously maintained and well respected. Our cultural heritage is signature with diversities. Under this backdrop how anthropological knowledge was helpful for the then administrators of British Government and accordingly the experts were inducted for good governance of the people under their administrative control. the present treatise is a continuation of earlier volume with same title published in 2019 fromthe same publishing House located at Delhi and compilation of some more Indian scholars who studied various Indian villages / ethic group which were helpful for the anthropological knowledge for further research work is done. Following these trend, there were a number of Indian scholars during this 100 years from 1920-2019, whose contributions in anthropological domain cannot be ignored.  Since 1920, anthropological studies covered many dimensions of Indian communities but the interest on kinship study shows a remarkable importance. To understand the social structure of a society through kinship behaviours of the people within the family and its outer world is important one; accordingly we have included ‘Study of Kinship Pattern and System’, followed by ‘Cultural Notion: Anthropology of Culture of Space Dynamics among the Indian Tribes--a tool of Community development’,’ Study on Culture and Communication’, an untold story in anthropology of Biraja Shankar Guha with Poska‘ and lastly how to understand Social/Cultural Change in Anthropological Perspective are also dealt. this book will not only be helpful for the students and faculty members of various institutions but also it will give light to present administrators of various States of our country for understanding the society through anthropological knowledge for better execution of developmental work under their control.