Nirmal Kumar Bose (22 January 1901 – 15 October 1972) was a leading Indian anthropologist, who
played a formative role in "building an Indian Tradition in Anthropology".
A humanist scholar with a broad range of interests, he was also a leading sociologist, urbanist, Gandhian, and educationist.
Also active in the Indian freedom struggle with Mahatma Gandhi, he was imprisoned in 1931 during the Salt Satyagraha.