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Unit 14: Research Activities

humanities to achieve the goal of an interdisciplinary approach in historical perspectives. The Council Notes
provides financial assistance for holding seminars, conferences, workshops, etc. related to history.
It also provides subsidy for publications of conference proceedings. The Council has brought out
900 publications which fall into following three categories: (i) Indian history and allied disciplines,
(ii) Reference books, (iii) History of Asia and neighboring countries.
The Council has two Regional Centres namely ICHR—North-East Regional Centre (Guwahati) and
ICHR—Southern Regional Centre (Bangalore) for providing assistance to researchers and scholars
of the respective regions. The Council publishes two bi-annual journals titled ‘The Indian Historical
Review’ in English and ‘Itihas’ in Hindi. The Council has library cum documentation centre to cater
to the information needs of the scholars.

14.2.6 Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)

The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) was established in 1936, as the Sir Dorabji Tata Graduate
School of Social Work. The first school of social work in India, TISS was a pioneering effort with the
objective of Social Welfare through academic excellence.
Since its inception in 1936, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences has never limited itself to the mandate
of a conventional university; rather, it has worked for the promotion of sustainable, equitable and
participatory development, social welfare and social justice through:

y Value-based professional education for social work and other human service professions;
y Social research and dissemination of socially relevant knowledge;
y Social intervention through training and field action projects;
y Contribution to social and welfare policy and programme formulation at state, national and
international levels; and
y Professional response to national calamities, through relief, rehabilitation and disaster
management.

14.2.7 London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

LSE is a world-leading pioneer of the social sciences, having played a unique role in defining and
developing key academic subjects. International relations, social policy, sociology, social anthropology,
social psychology and criminology all have their origins as subjects of university study in the innovative
work carried out by LSE academics. With the highest percentage of world-leading research of any
university in the UK, the School is committed to continuing its role as a guardian of the social sciences,
leading the debate in new intellectual areas.

The Department of Sociology at LSE was the first to be created in Britain and has played a key role in
establishing and developing the discipline nationally and internationally – since 1904. The Department
is committed to empirically rich, conceptually sophisticated, and socially and politically relevant
research and scholarship, building upon the traditions of the discipline, and playing a key role in
the development of the social sciences into the new intellectual areas, social problems, and ethical
dilemmas that face a globalised post-modern society.

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