Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute
[citation needed] The G. B. Pant Samajik Vigyan Sansthan (Social Science Institute) was set up at the initiative of the government of Uttar Pradesh.
The government of India subsequently constituted a committee under the chairmanship of Prof S. Chakravarty, Member, Planning Commission, to work out the details.
50 lakh be made to the institute, to be shared equally by the ICSSR and the GoUP, and a recurring grant of Rs.
The institute has a library that serves as a national collection of books, archival material, journals and recent documentation for studies and research and development, management and ethnography.
It has over 50,000 books, archival material and documentation of studies and research in almost all social science disciplines and subscribes to 150 national and international journals.
[citation needed] Mode of Admission to this institute is only by completing an entrance exam organized by the University of Allahabad.
It portrays the living, vibrant and dynamic aspects of Indian folk and cultural traditions which have played a role in the socio-economic development of the country, particularly UP and its neighboring regions.
[citation needed] The display section of the museum is an integral and complementary part of the research wing.
The gallery displaying Manav Vikas ki Katha highlights the march of civilization since prehistoric times.
It presents a history of the development, particularly socio-economic, of human civilization in the specific context of north India.
Under its programme on Identity and Development workshops like Zindagi Nadi Kinare (with the Nishads) and Hunar (with the various lower caste communities of Shahabpur), were organized in the last few years.
Other intervention programmes included sensitizing rural communities about the problem of water scarcity through their own cultural resources.
One project that is underway is 'Myth, Memory and Politics: A study of the language of mobilization of grassroot dalits' funded by ICSSR.
[citation needed] The museum has institutional collaboration with various institutions working in the field of culture like IGRMS, Bhopal; NCZCC, Allahabad; Anand Bhawan, Allahabad; Department of Culture, UP government and government of India, and KIT Tropen Museum, Amsterdam.
One of the thematic areas of research emerging in the institute is around various kinds of marginalities produced by the traditional structures and the globalizing world.
