Career
He was the first Professor of Anthropology at the University of Calcutta, and received the "Bishop Museum Fellowship" in 1924 for studying "Polynesian affinities with India". Panchanan Mitra was the first Indian to obtain a PhD from Yale University, USA in the year 1930. At Yale, he worked under the supervision of Clark Wissler. Mitra undertook and supervised several pioneering anthropological expeditions in India and abroad. Several of his students became notable. Nirmal Kumar Bose, personal secretary of Mahatma Gandhi during the Noakhali pre-partition riots was his student.
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