Surajit Chandra Sinha (1926–2002) was born in Mymensingh District, (then Bengal and now) in Bangladesh since the divide, to Bhupendra Chandra Sinha (Maharaja of Susang) and a mother that belonged to a Zamindari (aristocratic) family of Sithlai in Pabna District, was an Indian anthropologist, and committed to the ideologies of both Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore.