ANNUAL REPORT 2010-11 Annual Report 2011-12 Indian Council of Social Science Research Aruna Asaf Ali Marg J.N.U. Institutional Area New Delhi-110067 1 ( i ) INDIAN COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH 2 ANNUAL REPORT 2010-11 Contents Programmes 1-78 1. Overview 1 2. Research Promotion 4 3. Documentation 8 4. Research Surveys and Publications 13 5. International Collaboration 15 6. Regional Centres 28 7. Research Institutes 65 8. Other Programmes 73 Appendices 79-316 1. List of Members of the Council 79 2. ICSSR Senior Officials 84 3 Research Projects 86 4 Research Fellowships 100 5. Publication Grants 123 6. Financial Assistance Provided to the scholars who 130 went abroad to participate in the International Conferences/Data Collection 7. Financial Assistance Provided for Organising 136 International/National Seminars in India 8. Research Institutes 148 9. Allocation and Release of Grant to Research Institutes during 304 the financial year 2011-12 10. Theses Purchased in NASSDOC 307 Statement of Accounts 317 3 ( iii ) INDIAN COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH 4 ANNUAL REPORT 2010-11 Programmes 5 ( v ) 1 Overview Social science research, which presupposes as an autonomous organisation. The chief freedom of intellectual choice and opinion, architects of this endeavour included Professor is a luxury that a developing nation seldom V.K.R.V. Rao, Professor D. R. Gadgil, Professor encourages. India has not only encouraged it, but M. N. Sriniwas, Professor P.N. Dhar, Dr. S. K. also promoted it with state patronage. Mitra and Shri J.P. Naik, among others. The ICSSR was formally launched in May 1969. It Following the Independence of India in 1947, was considered a significant achievement of as part of our nation-building programme, Indian democracy. there were efforts to make social science a holistic knowledge system. India’s problems The objectives of the Council are to: were unique and the tools available to study • Review the progress of social science them were all invented in the West, which research and give advice to its users; did not always prove useful. A strong need was felt to develop a methodology relevant • Sponsor social science research for understanding indian complexities in the programmes and projects and administer field of social science research. Integrating grants to institutions and individuals for our intellectual traditions with the forces of research in social sciences; modernization was a challenge that had its own positive and negative connotations. The • Institute and administer scholarships and State came forward with its interventionist fellowships for research in social sciences; role to take up the daunting task. It could not • Indicate areas in which social science have been taken up by any other agency both research is to be promoted and adopt for financial and logistical reasons. special measures for development of Towards this pursuit, on 12th December 1968, research in neglected or new areas; the Ministry of Education (now known as • Give financial support to institutions, Ministry of Human Resource Development), associations, and journals engaged in Government of India, established the Indian social science research; Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) 1 Indian Council of Social Science Research • Arrange for technical training in research This is the 43rd Annual Report of the Indian methodology and to provide guidance Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) for research; covering the period 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012. The ICSSR’s decision making body, known • Coordinate research activities and as the Council, has twenty six members, which encourage programmes of inter include a Chairman, eighteen Social Scientists, disciplinary research; six representatives of the Government of • Develop and suport centres for India nominated by the Government and a documentation services and supply of Member-Secretary appointed by the ICSSR data; with the approval of the Government of India. At present one vacancy exists in the Governing • Organise, sponsor and finance seminars, Council of the ICSSR (Appendix-1). workshops, and study groups; The ICSSR Secretariat is headed by the Member • Undertake publication and assist –Secretary and has 43 officers(Appendix-2) and publication of journals and books in other officials. The ICSSR’s professional staff, social sciences; apart from official duties, have been academically • Advise the Government of India on active and contributed a number of seminar all matters pertaining to social science papers and research reports during the year. research as may be referred to it from The Council has apart from itself, five standing time to time; and committees comprising members drawn from • Take such measures generally as may the Council and from outside (not more than be necessary to promote social science three). Table 1.1 shows the number of meeting research and its utilisation. the Council and its Standing Committees held during the year 2011-12. Table- 1.1 Meetings of the Council/Committees S.No. Council/Committee Total Number and Date of Meeting 1. Council Meeting 2 118th and 119th Council Meetings held on 25th Jan 2012 and 21st March 2012 respectively. 2. Policy Planning and 1 72nd PPAC Meeting held on 20th March Administration Committee 2012. (PPAC) 3. Research Committee (RC) 1 157th Research Committee Meeting held on 27th Feb 2012. 4. Research Institutes’ 1 61st RIC meeting held on 20th March 2012 Committee (RIC) 5. Committee on International - Collaboration (IC) 2 Overview During the year 2011-12, the ICSSR provided a variety of issues of their interest and having financial support to 66 research projects and policy relevance. awarded 73 fellowships to scholars to work on Table- 1.2 Year at a Glance S.No. Name of the Programme/Scheme/Services Number 1. Reseach Projects Sanctioned 66 2. Final Reports of earlier Research Projects Received 93 3. National Fellowships 04 4. Senior Fellowships 14 5. Post Doctoral Fellowships 55 6. Library and Documentation Services 4894 7. Exchange of Scholars under International Collaboration Programme 40 8. Training Courses in Research Methodology 17 9. Research Output from ICSSR Research Institutes a) Books 141 b) Working Papers/Monographs 132 c) Articles 486 3 2 Research Promotion Research Projects The yearwise position of research projects sanctioned since the inception of ICSSR till the The funding of Research Projects is one of year 2011-12, projects cancelled/ withdrawn/ the important activities of the Indian Council closed and reports received till 31st March 2012 of Social Science Research. The programme is furnished herewith in Table 2.1(a). Separate encourages scholars to conduct research on progress is shown in Table 2.1(b) for the any theme, which has the potential of making research projects sanctioned under the North- a significant contribution to the social sciences. East programme. Table 2.1 (a) Status of the Sanctioned Research Projects Year Sanctioned Cancelled/Closed Final Report Received From inception till 1990 2023 215 1765 1990-2000 597 46 471 2000-2001 36 02 32 2001-2002 20 04 15 2002-2003 54 04 46 2003-2004 101 06 84 2004-2005 50 01 34 2005-2006 - - - 2006-2007 30 01 27 2007-2008 78 03 39 2008-2009 124 - 80 2009-2010 160 03 30 2010-2011 158 - On going 2011-2012 66 - On going Total 3497 285 2623 4 Research Promotion Table 2.1 (b) Status of the Research Projects Sanctioned under the North-East Category Year Sanctioned Cancelled/Closed Final Report Received 2001-2002 12 - 11 2002-2003 34 02 30 2003-2004 37 03 28 2004-2005 31 06 16 2005-2006 - - - 2006-2007 08 - 09 2007-2008 15 01 10 2008-2009 18 - 11 2009-2010 22 - 03 2010-2011 27 - 01 2011-2012 08 - On going Total 212 12 119 During the year 2011-12, 66 research projects social scientists who have made outstanding were sanctioned by the ICSSR on a wide range contribution in their respective fields. The of issues. These included 19 projects to SC ICSSR has so far awarded 111 National and five to ST scholars, respectively. Under Fellowships. During the year under report, the North-East programme, a total of eight four national fellowships were awarded and projects were sanctioned during the year. The four final reports were received. final reports of 93 research projects were received by the ICSSR during the year. The Senior Fellowships details of sanctioned and final project reports The Senior Fellowships of the ICSSR are received have been given in Appendix 3. awarded to those social scientists who have significant publications including books and National Fellowships research papers to their credit in professional The Indian Council of Social Science journals. The ICSSR has so far awarded 467 Research, under its Research Fellowship senior fellowships. During the year under Programme, has been offering ‘National review, fourteen senior fellowships were Fellowships’ on its own initiative to eminent awarded and four final reports were received. 5 Indian Council of Social Science Research Post-Doctoral Fellowships doctoral degree in social sciences. The ICSSR awards these fellowships through two of its The Post-Doctoral Fellowships of the ICSSR schemes: (i) Centrally Administered Open are awarded to young social scientists who have Doctoral Fellowships and (ii) Institutional completed their Ph.D. degree and are interested Doctoral Fellowships. Under the former in pursuing their research activities further. The scheme, the ICSSR awards fellowship on its ICSSR has so far awarded 409 post-doctoral own, while under the latter the selected ICSSR fellowships. During the year under review, 55 institutes make selection on their own. The post-doctoral fellowships were awarded and fellowship is awarded for a period of two eleven final reports were received. years extendable by one year in exceptional cases. The ICSSR has so far awarded 2153 Doctoral Fellowships doctoral fellowships. During the period under The doctoral fellowships of the ICSSR are report, 15 doctoral fellowships in North- awarded to scholars who have a Masters degree East Category, 67 in open category and 49 of a recognized Indian University with a first institutional doctoral fellowships were awarded.