A Report on Social Sciences in India Retrspective & Prospective Volume Two: An Abstract of Social Science Statistics

Abstract

From Introduction: This second volume of the Report: Social Science in India: Retrospective and Prospective is a supporting document to the first volume which sets forth the analysis, conclusions and recommendation of the Indian Council of Social Science Research Review Committee. This second volume is divided into two parts. One part, with which the volume begins, consists of tables with some charts and diagrams, presenting the data concerning the social sciences-University departments, post-graduate enrolment, doctorate awards, staff distribution, professional organizations, journals and articles-drawn from published material of the Indian Council of Social Science Research and the University Grants Commission. This part also sets forth in tabular form information pertaining to the Council-project proposals received and accepted, research grants, publication grants, fellowship applications and awards, Newsletter distribution, training courses, budgets. This first part of the volume contains the statistical data; these together with the trend studies prepared by the disciplinary Standing Committees of the Council provide the base on which the analysis of the current status of the social sciences and the past functioning of the Council has been made in Chapters I and IV of Volume 1 of the Report.