Original sentence: Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi (28 February 1931 – 1985) was Indian an anthropologists
Edited sentence: Acharya Narendra Deo, the then Vice-Chancellor of University of Lucknow persuaded Vidyarthi to study Anthropology and helped him to get admission to Lucknow University.After he had completed his initial schooling his family shifted to Gaya in 1940, where his father was employed as an Assistant Lawyer in Mukhsudpur estate.At this point he heard about a Scholarship announced for the students undertaking Anthropology and applied for it.Deepak Vidyarthi was given the Presidential Medal for his outstanding work as a Jail Supretendant.He did his Phd from University of Chicago.He matriculated in 1946, achieving top merit in his school and a very high ranking in the State standings and hence was readily accepted at both Patna Arts College and Patna Science College of Patna University.He was the Head of the Department of Anthropology, Ranchi University, Ranchi, India.He was the President of IUAES (1973–1978) and presided over the World Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences held in December 1978 at New Delhi.He was, at this juncture torn between studying Science and Humanities but soon he decided that Science education like engineering or medicine would be too expensive for his family and took up Geography as his honours subject.His son Mr.In 1950, Vidyarthi received a first class degree in Geography(M.Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi (28 February 1931 – 1985) was one of the most renowned Indian anthropologists of the 20th century.They had four children, two sons and two daughters, all of them well placed in their fields.This event marked the zenith of Indian anthropology.Vidyarthi married Lakshmi Vidyarthi on 18 May 1952, as he had promised his deceased father that he would do so after completing his post-graduate degree.Vidyarthi was born in the small village of Bariyarpur, located near Barh in Patna district of  Bihar, India, on 28 February 1931.When he was accepted for the course he came into a dilemma of whether to continue the field of Geography or to explore the new subject of Anthropology