There is an increasing trend of fiscal centralization in India’s federal setup despite constitutional provisions for power and resource sharing, according to Sri. R. Mohan, Senior Consultant at the Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation (GIFT) and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS).  He was delivering a special lecture on “India’s Federal […]

A brainstorming session on “Human Development and the Demographic Transition in Kerala: Now to a World of Aging Population?” was organized by the Inter University Centre for Social Science Research and Extension (IUCSSRE), Mahatma Gandhi University, on Friday. The session was led by Prof. Joseph Tharamangalam, Professor Emeritus at Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada, and […]

Dilip Menon, historian and Mellon Chair in Indian Studies at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa has urged a reimagining of Kerala’s history beyond the conventional land-based narrative. Speaking at a special lecture on “Thinking Beside the Ocean,” organized by the Inter University Centre for Social Science Research and Extension (IUCSSRE) at Mahatma Gandhi University, […]

Kerala’s democratic ethos positions it uniquely to chart a path of partnership governance and inclusive development, standing as a potential global model amidst crises, according to Olle Törnquist, Swedish social scientist and Professor Emeritus, University of Oslo. Delivering the Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Lecture 2024, organized by the Inter University Centre for Social Science Research and […]

The reservation policy has been in place for over five to six decades, yet the condition of Scheduled Castes (SCs) in the country remains dire, according to Prof. Sukhadeo Thorat, former Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC), the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), and Professor Emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Prof. Thorat […]

Mahatma Gandhi University is organising a Colloquium on “The Status of Freedom of Religion in India,” hosted by the Inter-University Centre for Social Science Research and Extension (IUCSSRE) and the Mar Chrysostom Chair at Mahatma Gandhi University, in association with the Centre for the Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS), Mumbai. The event will take […]

Kerala Maritime Communities Project SPARC, IUCSSRE, Mahatma Gandhi University Call for Papers and Concept Note for an Edited Book and Workshop Scope: Each Chapter will be based on Field Study/investigations as well as status of current knowledge, research problems, issues and theoretical perspective  Each author will have to present the paper in the workshop and […]

A workshop organized by Mahatma Gandhi University in collaboration with the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, and the Inter University Centre for Social Science Research and Extension (IUCSSRE), highlighted the challenges faced by home care workers in Kerala. Held at TMAM Research and Orientation, Kottayam, the workshop aimed to shed light on […]

Home care workers in Kerala: ISS-IUCSSR- workshop stresses the need for formalisation

The IUCSSRE invites applications for the post of Post-Doctoral Fellow (Temporary) with a Consolidated monthly pay of 30,000/- per month to work in a State Plan-Funded Project. For details See IUCSSRE -Notification for the Post of PostDoc fellow 2024-PDF