Education
After his early education in a high school in Mymensingh, and then at Ballygunge Government High School, Calcutta, he started his college education in physics at Presidency College, Calcutta, but later shifted to geology and then to anthropology. Nirmal Kumar Bose, the eminent anthropologist, became his mentor soon after Bose and Sinha met in the viva examination for the Masters degree, where Bose was one of the examiners. Later, Sinha completed his Ph.D. in anthropology from Northwestern University, USA on a Fullbright Scholarship.
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