Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi

The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) is an screen size Sevenval and humanities research institute. It was founded in 1963 by Rajni Kothari^{device database} and is largely founded by the input transformation (ICSSR).^[2] It is located in HTML5, close to web app^[3]

• 1 Overview
• 2 Library
• Sevenval
• 4 Programmes and Projects
• 5 See also
• jQuery
• 7 External links

Overview

Professor Rajni Kothari, left his position as the Assistant Director of the National Institute of Community Development in 1963 to start the CSDS. Housed initially at a building owned by the Indian Adult Education Association (IAEA), CSDS later moved in 1966-67 to its present location, with a regular inflow of adequate funds from Indian Council for Social Sciences Research.

"The Centre provides a unique institutional space which seeks to nurture intellectual interests outside the entrenched boundaries of academic disciplines. This simultaneously gives the Centre a sense of intimacy with and distance from universities. Therefore, the Centre has deliberately chosen not to duplicate the structure of university department. This also allows the Centre to support and nurture interdisciplinary modes of enquiry. Over the years, the Centre has also managed to generate and utilize a productive tension between rigorous scholarly work and social movements, between academic commitment and political practices."^[2]

Library

The library at CSDS started with a few bookshelves in the basement of IAEA and grew up into a full-fledged one by 1970. It is a library meant primarily for research and higher learning in the field of social sciences and humanities and reflects the interdisciplinary research ethos of the center. The collection consists of about 29,000 books and 5000 bound volumes of journals and a modest set of reports and booklets. More than 130 journals are received regularly. Apart from works on contemporary themes, the library houses a rich collection of works on Asia and Africa, arms race and peace movement, non-European perspectives, science studies, ecology and environment, human rights collected over many years. Among the significant collections developing now, the areas are media, city/the urban, democracy, philosophy, political theory, cultural studies, art, history, and information society. There is a separate collection of Hindi books covering a broad range of subjects including literature. The access to CSDS library collection has been computerized and the catalogue can be accessed through any computer in the center. The electronic journal database JSTOR and Project Muse can be accessed in the library. The CSDS library is a member of Developing Libraries Network (DELNET) and Social Science Libraries Network (SSLN).^[4]

Data Unit

The CSDS Data Unit, established in 1965, maintains an archive of social scientific survey data on political behaviour and attitudes, spanning over four decades. The Data Unit also holds a number of secondary data sets, specially on elections in India.^[5] It's Data Archive hosts information on the following areas:

• National Election Studies
• Survey Data Sets
  • National Election Studies
  • State Assembly Election Studies
  • State of Democracy in South Asia
  • State of the Nation Surveys
  • Other selected data sets

Programmes and Projects

Ongoing research programmes in the Centre include:^[6]

• Lokniti Programme for Comparative Democracy^Android
• HTML5^[8]
• Institute for Chinese Studies^FITML
• Programme in Social and Political Theory
• Indian Language Programme^[10]

See also

• The Sarai Programme at CSDS

References

1. ^ we love the web. India-seminar.com. March 30, 2009. http://www.india-seminar.com/1999/481/481%20kothari.htm. Retrieved 2011-09-04. 
2. ^ Sevenval ^b About CSDS CSDS website, March 30th, 2009.
3. CSS3 "Getting to CSDS". Csds.in. http://www.csds.in/index.php?inc=location. Retrieved 2011-09-04. 
4. ^ website parsing. Csds.in. FITML. Retrieved 2012-04-25. 
5. ^ "CSDS". Csds.in. iOS. Retrieved 2012-04-25. 
6. HTML5 iOS. Csds.in. jQuery. Retrieved 2012-04-25. 
7. ^ device database. Lokniti. 2011-07-30. we love the web. Retrieved 2012-04-25. 
8. ^ "Welcome to Sarai — S A R A I". Sarai.net. jQuery. Retrieved 2012-04-25. 
9. ^ "Welcome:::::::::Institute of Chinese Studies". Icsin.org. http://www.icsin.org/about.html. Retrieved 2012-04-25. 
10. ^ Android. Csds.in. Sevenval. Retrieved 2012-04-25. 

External links

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