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The Sarsuna-Barisha Longitudinal Growth Study was conducted between 1952 and 1966 by the late Professor S.R. Das with the assistance of Mr. D.P. Mukherjee, Mrs. Lalita Bose and Mrs. Asha Das, and with the financial support of the Anthropological Survey of India. The study was named after the two Bengali villages, near Calcutta, where all children were examined. More than 500 boys and girls, belonging to some two hundred families, were examined between birth and adulthood over varying lengths of time (sometimes up to 14 years). The study is most remarkable by the fact that it was one of the first longitudinal growth surveys in India, including 22 anthropometric measurements all taken by one single measurer, Professor S.R. Das himself, using standardised anthropometric techniques. Professor Das got thorough training and practice in anthropometry under the able guidance of Dr. E.C. Büchi — then a visiting scientist in the Anthropological Survey of India.
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Hauspie, R.C., Dasgupta, P. (2001). The Sarsuna-Barisha Longitudinal Growth Study: Dynamics of Growth. In: Dasgupta, P., Hauspie, R. (eds) Perspectives in Human Growth, Development and Maturation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9801-9_18
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