[6] In the address, Das elaborately charted out the future path of Indian anthropology with a description of the social dynamics of the tribal and peasant societies in India in the context of the role of anthropologists in nation building.
[8] One is his monograph on the Purum Kuku tribe of north-east India and the other is on the Great Bengal Famine during the Second World War.
[10][11] The book on the Famine of Bengal which took place in 1943 was a unique and rare first-hand study done by any anthropologist or social scientist on the victims of one of the greatest tragedies of India under the colonial rule.
[5] The Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen cited Das's original work in his famous book Poverty and Famines.
[13][14][15][16] Throughout the book, one finds description by Das wherein dry quantitative data, graphs and tables were made alive with human stories of grim struggles between hunger and finer sentiments of love, affection and kindness’[17][18][19][20][21][22] Das had conducted intensive fieldwork among three tribes in eastern India, viz.