Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) is an autonomous research centre devoted to the research and advancement of the social sciences in South Asia. It is one of the leading social science think tanks in India and is also well known internationally. Soon after the General Election of 1972, the then Union Minister of State (with Independent Charges) of Education, Social Welfare, and Culture, Professor Saiyid Nurul Hasan, an e... More

The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) is an autonomous research centre devoted to the research and advancement of the social sciences in South Asia. It is one of the leading social science think tanks in India and is also well known internationally. Soon after the General Election of 1972, the then Union Minister of State (with Independent Charges) of Education, Social Welfare, and Culture, Professor Saiyid Nurul Hasan, an eminent historian, appointed a national level committee, chaired by Professor Sukhomoy Chakravarty, then Member, Planning Commission. The committee consisted of Professor Bhabatosh Dutta, then Member of the Fifth Pay Commission and until then Education Advisor to the Governor of West Bengal, Professor J.P.Naik, then Education Adviser to the Government of India, Professor Surajit Sinha, then Director, Anthropological Survey of India, Calcutta, Professor Tapas Majumdar, then Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and...

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