The Department of Anthropology is one of the oldest in South India established in the year 1961 under the leadership of Dr. N. Subba Reddy. The department maintains a holistic approach to anthropological teaching and research in all fields of the discipline including Socio-cultural Anthropology, Biological Anthropology and Palaeo Anthropology.

As you are aware Human Genetics is the most fascinating and is currently fast growing subject in the domain of life sciences, dealing with the study of man in the most comprehensive way. This is a small, yet potential department of the most exciting subject which is concerned with the study of human variation in health and disease. Human Genetics has attained utmost importance because of its application in modern medicine. Tomorrow's medicine is going to be simply genetic medicine.