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 ABOUT IDSK


    


    The Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK) has
    been promoted by the Government of West Bengal as an autonomous
    centre of excellence in social sciences. It was founded in 2002
    as a society with an autonomous governing body with one of the
    most eminent historians in India, Professor Irfan Habib as President,
    Professor Amiya Kumar Bagchi as Director and with a Governing
    Council on which are represented the Vice-Chancellors of two
    leading Universities in West Bengal, namely Calcutta University
    and Jadavpur University. The Governing Council also includes
    such eminent academics as Professor Nirmal Chandra, Professor
    Suranjan Das, Professor V.K. Ramachandran and Professor Malini
    Bhattacharya as its members.


    
IDSK is devoted to advanced academic
    research and informed policy advice in the areas of literacy,
    education, health, women, employment, technology, communication,
    human sciences and economic development. Other programmes include
    training of research scholars in the social sciences working
    towards a Ph.D. The Institute is committed to the dissemination
    of its research findings through workshops, seminars, publications
    in the media, and other public counselling and education programmes.
    Among its other activities, it has carried out a field survey
    based research programme on literacy and primary education in
    West Bengal, some of the results of which have been published
    as Working Papers. It has also completed a research project on
    Public Health, Nutrition and Medicine.It has carried out a study
    of in-service training programmes
    under DPEP in five districts of West Bengal.


    
 


    

      
      

        
        
          The Perilous
        Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital                                          by
         Amiya Kumar Bagchi


        
 


        
Admission to  M.Phil  in  Development
        Studies