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{{Short description|Indian research institute for the social sciences}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=August 2015}}
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|established = 1969
|leader_title  = [[Chairman]]
|leader_name   = Prof. Bhushan Patwardhan<ref>http://icssr.org/chairman</ref>
|leader_title2 = Member Secretary
|leader_name2  = Prof. Virendra Kumar Malhotra<ref>http://icssr.org/member-secretary</ref>
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|location    = Aruna Asaf Ali Marg,<br /> [[New Delhi]]
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|website     = {{url|icssr.org}}
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The '''Indian Council of Social Science Research''' ('''ICSSR''') is the national body overseeing research in the [[social sciences]] in India. It was established in [[New Delhi]] in 1969.{{r|epw|page=3606}}

== Council ==
The Council is currently chaired by [[Bhushan Patwardhan]]. Current members include Deena Bandhu Pandey, [[P. Kanagasabapathy|P. Kanagasabapathi]], [[Sanjay Kumar (professor)|Sanjay Kumar]], [[H. S. Bedi|H.S. Bedi]], Harish Chandra Singh Rathore, Panchanan Mohanty, [[Amita Singh]], [[Kshamadevi Shankarrao Khobragade]], T. Subramanyam Naidu, Rakesh Sinha, Aswini Mohapatra, P.V. Krishna Bhatta, Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit, J.K. Bajaj, M.P. Bezbaruah, D.D. Pattanaik, and [[Madhu Purnima Kishwar]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=ICSSR - Council Members|url=https://icssr.org/council-members|website=Indian Council of Social Science Research}}</ref>

== Activities ==
It provides funding to scholars and to a network of twenty-seven [[research institutes]], among them: <ref>https://www.icssr.org/research-institute</ref>

* Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre for Development Studies (NCDS), Bhubaneswar
* [[Institute of Economic Growth]], Delhi
* [[Centre for Development Studies]], Thiruvananthapuram
* [[Centre for Policy Research]], New Delhi
* [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]]
* [[Centre for the Study of Developing Societies]], Delhi
* Centre for Multi-Disciplinary Development Research
* [[Centre for Women's Development Studies]], Delhi
* [[Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute]], Allahabad
* Indian Institute Of Economics, Hyderabad
* [[Institute of Public Enterprise]], Hyderabad
* [[Institute for Social and Economic Change]], Bangalore
* [[Institute for Studies in Industrial Development]], New Delhi
* [[Madras Institute of Development Studies]].
* [[Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development]], Guwahati

A large proportion of its budget is spent on its own administration; in 1996–1997, this amounted to 23% of total expenditure.{{r|epw|page=3607}} It has been described as an "oversized, unimaginative and inefficient bureaucrac[y]".{{r|epw|page=3604}}

== See also ==

* [[National Social Science Documentation Centre]]

== References ==

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<ref name=epw>Partha Chatterjee (2002). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/4412549 Institutional Context of Social Science Research in South Asia]. ''Economic and Political Weekly'' '''37''' (35): 3604–3612. {{subscription required}}.</ref>

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