Southern Regional Centre, Hyderabad

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The City
The city of Hyderabad also known as Bhagyanagar was founded by King Muhammad Ibrahim Quli Qutub Shah in 1591 AD on the northern bank of river Musi as the walled city of Golkonda, his capital was getting too congested. Secunderabad developed with the advent of the railways, establishment of industries and cantonment area. In March 1951 Secunderabad Municipality and Secunderabad Cantonment were merged with Hyderabad. It is a centre of Dakhani Urdu which was derived from Persian, Arabic, Telugu, Marathi and Hindi. Hyderabad is famous for its pearls and food, especially the biryani, harris and halim.

Establishment
To assist the Council in the organization of its programmes within the Southern Region and to develop documentation and bibliographical services in some of the South Indian languages the Southern Regional Centre was established on 1 February 1973 at the Osmania University Campus in collaboration with the Osmania University and the Government of Andhra Pradesh. The founder Director of the Southern Regional Centre was Late Prof. G.Ram Reddy who rose to become the Chairman of SRC (1977-82), Chairman, UGC, and Chairman, ICSSR.

Aims

The main aims of the Southern Regional Centre are:

  1. To collect and stock social science research material in Telugu and Urdu in addition to English and maintain the necessary equipment for its use;
  2. Represent the ICSSR within the Region and to work for extension of its programme to social scientists in the region.
  3. Bring the social scientists of the region closer for promotion of social science research.
  4. Bring the ideas and problems of the social scientists of the region to the notice of the ICSSR, New Delhi;
  5. Serve as a link between the social scientists of the region and national and international communities of the social scientists.
    • Perform the above role, the following activities are envisaged for the Regional Centre:
    • Promote documentation and bibliographical work in the regional languages.
    • Supplement social science journals/periodicals of the Southern Universities.
    • Organize or assist in the organization of seminars/workshops/conferences/lectures in the region.
    • Provide financial assistance to regional professional associations and social science journals in the regional languages.
    • Provide Study Grants for visiting library/institution for research work.
    • Collect material/information in regional languages to promote research.
    • Provide translations of research materials into regional languages.
    • Supervise and coordinate the research projects/fellowships sanctioned by the ICSSR in the region.
    • Evaluate and support the proposals received in regional languages for financial support.
    • Guide social science scholars about the various activities and facilities available at ICSSR.
    • Organize meetings of the Project Directors, Senior Fellows, General Fellows and Ph.D. students for streamlining the progress of their projects and fellowships and to bring to the notice of the ICSSR, the problems and difficulties faced by the scholars;

ICSSR, the problems and difficulties faced by the scholars;
In addition, the regional centres may provide financial assistance for organizing training programmes in research methodology/application of computers in social science research;
Arrange visits of eminent social scientists to the Centre where they deliver lectures and hold discussions and seminars,and
Organize any other activity which the ICSSR may entrust to the Regional Centres.

Management
The Vice-Chancellor of Osmania University is the Chairman of the Southern Regional Centre.He broadly supervises the Centre’s and programmes.For advising the Chairman in the planning and development of its programmes, the ICSSR constitutes, in consultation with the chairman, an Advisory Committee consisting of representatives of the Social Science Departments of the Universities and Research institutions in the four Southern States. The tenure of the advisory committee is two years. It meets at least once a year to review the work of the Centre during the preceding year and recommends programmes to be developed during the ensuing year.

Documentation and Bibliographical Services
It has brought out annotated bibliographies of Telugu and Urdu books in social sciences available in major libraries in India. The Centre has also brought out indices of articles in Telugu and Urdu from old and current social sciences periodicals and newspapers with respect to different social science subjects. The Centre also brings out documentation lists in social sciences in mimeographed form in English. It also brings out lists of select articles from journals and newspapers in Telugu, Urdu and Kannada, apart from publishing the current contents in social sciences.
The Centre has brought out a number of occasional Bibliographical publications on topics of current interest such as Indian Women, Indian Muslims, Centre-State Relations, National Integration, Reservation Policy, Population Education and Communalism.
One of the important activities of the Centre is the periodical compilation of M.Phil. and Ph.D. programmes in Social Sciences in South Indian Universities in collaboration with Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai.

Training and Promotional Programmes
Another important activity of the Centre is organizing and sponsoring Research Methodology Courses for Social Science researchers in different cities of the Southern Region.The Centre also supports theme oriented Seminars, Symposia, Workshops and Conferences in different social science subjects in the Southern Region.

Study Grants
In order to enable the researchers in Social Sciences from different institutions in the Southern Region, the Centre provides financial assistance for their visit to Hyderabad for collection of data from different institutions in the twin cities. In order to enable these research scholars to stay in Hyderabad at a convenient place and at a reasonable rate the Centre provides Guest House facilities.

Library
The collection is mostly in English language (apart from Telugu and Urdu being Regional languages) help in bringing out occasional bibliographical publications on topics of current interest. Further, the Centre has built up good collection of theme oriented books and journals which is around 25,000 volumes. The newspaper files sent by NASSDOC from New Delhi are also being preserved in our Library for reference purposes.

Facilities

Guidance to Scholars
Young research scholars from Hyderabad and other places approach the Regional Centre for guidance in their research work in terms of reading materials, bibliographies, documentation, lists, formulation of research proposals, construction of questionnaire, etc.

Guest house
The Southern Regional Centre has a well furnished Guest House with the following tariff. The recipients of Study Grant are charged only Rs.50/- per day
10 Double rooms non A/c (each) Rs.160/- per day
Single occupancy, Rs.100/- per day
A/c room – single, Rs.250/- per day
A/c room – double, Rs.350/- per day

Conference Hall
The Southern Regional Centre has a well furnished conference hall with a seating capacity of 115 and a fixed Public Address system.
The Centre charges Rs.600/- from Osmania University Departments, Rs.1,200/- from the Research Institutions and Rs.1,500/- from private colleges.
Committee Room
The Southern Regional Centre has a Committee room of the size 20’ x 30’. Small group meetings, talks and lectures are conducted in this room.
Computers
The Centre has computer facilities of Pentium III with Internet facilities. Two PC 386 and 486 are also in use.

For any other information one may get in touch with

Prof.Kousar J.Azam
Hon. Director 27098756, 27682306(O)
27175232(R)
Dr.Masood Ali Khan
Deputy Director
27098756, 27682306 (O)
24526109 (R)
Southern Regional Centre,
Osmania University Campus,
Hyderabad – 500007.
R. C. Bindra