Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute - GBPSSI Allahabad - GBPSSI

The Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute became a Constituent Institute of the University of Allahabad on July 14, 2005, when the University of Allahabad Act, 2005 came into force. Established in 1980 as one in the network of Social Science Research Institutes, which Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) set up in association with the State Governments, in our case, the Government of Uttar Pradesh, the Institute entered privileges of the University of Allahabad in 2005. The Institute undertakes interdisciplinary research in the field of social sciences. The mission of the Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute is to create new knowledge in the field of social sciences. The researchers confront the emerging challenges in the continuously changing society with new paradigms and concepts, developing critical approaches to studying social phenomenon, generating new ideas, collecting empirical evidence from the ground level and constructing a dialogical engagement with policy making and social agents. Putting research in the public domain in the form of books and articles is the priority, followed by dialogue with the State and advocacy with civil society. The main areas of research at the Institute include development planning and policy, environment, health and population, human development, rural development and management, culture, power and change, democracy and institutions.The Institute has a doctoral programme in social sciences and a MBA Rural Development Programme. In both programmes the degree is awarded by the University of Allahabad. The Institute also has Museum of Ethnography and Development. When fully functional, it will be a ‘living’ museum depicting cultural and sub-cultural facets of contemporary community life with special focus on tribal groups.The Institute and its Faculty members are devoted to publication and dissemination of research ideas through widely available communication media. Since its inception, the institute has brought out over 100 occasional papers, and about 20 books and dozens of monographs. The Faculty has published a large number of research papers in various journals of national and international reputed.