INDIAN COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SCINECE RESEARCH

The ICSSR as part of the MHRD’s programme is commemorating the 150^th anniversary of the first war of Indian Independence (1857). The following national seminars and distinguished lectures have already been finalized to be held before 31^st March 2007 by ICSSR institutions and a few members of the Council.

NATIONAL SEMINARS

S.No. Name of the Institute/Centre Theme

1. Centre for Development Studies, Indian Economy: Historical Roots and

Thiruvananthapuram Contemporary Development Experience.

2. Institute of Economic Growth, Expanding Freedom: Towards Social and

Delhi Economic Transformation in a

Globalising World.

3. Centre for Economic and Social Movements, Social Transformation and

Studies, Hyderabad. Making of Modern Andhra Pradesh.

4. Dr. Sharit K. Bhowmik Governance and Work in

School of Management and Changing India

Labour Studies, TISS, Mumbai.

(To be organized through ICSSR,

W.R.C., Mumbai)

5. Giri Institute of Development Economic, Political and Social

Studies, Lucknow. Transformation in India Since1857

with Special Reference to

Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

6. Dr. M.A. Kalam State-Attempted Reforms, Peoples’

Department of Anthropology Movements and Socio-economic Changes.

University of Madras, Chennai.

(To be organized through ICSSR,

S.R.C., Hyderabad)

7. Gandhian Institute of Studies, Secularism as an Instrument

Varanasi of Nation Building.

Distinguished Lectures

1. Indian Institute of Education, (1) Issues and Problems of the Dalits

Kothrud, Pune. (2) Contemporary Issues of Social

Transformation(3) Social and

Educational Issues of the SCs and STs.

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2. Madras Institute of Topic awaited. Lecture will be

Development Studies, Chennai delivered by Prof. Sumit Sarkar.

3. Madhya Pradesh Institute of 1) Role of Science and

Social Science Research, Technology in Ensuring Special

Ujjain Justice 2) Special Security A

Pre-requisite for Social Justice

3) Ensuring Social Justice

through Democratic Decentralization.

4. Centre for Multi-Disciplinary Lecture in the fields of law,

Development Research Governance, Citizenship, Rights, Justice

(CMDR) Dharwad. Economy and Development

5. Institute of Public Enterprise, Restructuring Public Enterprise.

Hyderabad.

6. Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Transformation and the

Social Change & Making of Modern India.

Development,Guwahati.

7. Nabakrashna Chowdhury Kerala Milestones: on the

Centre for Development Parliamentary Road to Socialism.

Studies, Bhubaneswar.

The Council will also initiate a pilot programme on translating key texts of seminal sociological and cultural insight into english and hindi.