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The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, was founded in February 1973, as an independent research centre devoted to the advancement of the social sciences in south Asia.
It is financed primarily by grants from the Indian Council of Social Science Research, the Government of West Bengal, and the Government of India with full academic autonomy.
In March 2000, the Centre moved to its new campus at Baishnabghata Patuli Township on the southern end of the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass,in north east Calcutta. The new campus is 45 minutes from the city airport, and an hour from Howrah, the main rail station. It accommodates the library, the archive and rooms for seminars and lectures, as well as the administrative and faculty offices.
The Centre for Studies in SocialSciences, Calcutta, was founded in February 1973, as an independent research centre devoted to the advancement of the socialsciences in south Asia.
It is financed primarily by grants from the Indian Council of SocialScience Research, the Government of West Bengal, and the Government of India with full academic autonomy.
In March 2000, the Centre moved to its new campus at Baishnabghata Patuli Township on the southern end of the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass,in north east Calcutta.
The South Asia Program seeks to promote new and innovative research across all disciplines of the socialsciences and humanities in and on this world region.
Other recent South Asia program activities include publication of a handbook of socialscience essays, produced in Nepali to help college students make the transition from undergraduate to graduate school, conducting regional faculty workshops on migration and natural resources and the preparation of reports on the state of socialscience capacity in South Asia.
The partner organizations are: Centre for Alternatives in Dhaka, Bangladesh; Centre for Studies in SocialSciences - Calcutta in Kolkata, India; SocialScience Baha, Kathmandu, Nepal; Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Islamabad, Pakistan; and Social Scientists' Association in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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