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An Autonomous Social Science Research Institute Supported by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and Government of Gujarat (GoG)

SEMINAR, WORKSHOPS AND COLLOQUIA

LECTURES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

The Centre’s Library has a rich collection of books, back volumes and reports numbering more than 33,000. It offers a wide range of material to those interested in the area of social sciences with a particular focus on Gujarati society. Besides catering to the Centre’s research requirements and programmes, the library makes available its resources and services to the neighbouring academic community from the Veer Narmad South Gujarat University (VNSGU) as well as those coming from within and outside Gujarat. Researchers from other institutions duly authorized by their respective librarians can utilize the facilities of CSS library.

There are, in addition, longer seminars and workshops around specific themes which began to be organised since 1980 after the Centre moved into its own building and space ceased to be a problem. In fact, the Centre's own building was inaugurated with a seminar on - appropriately enough for the year 1980 - `Challenges for the 1980s'. Thus began an uninterrupted process of collective academic discussion on themes which reveal the range of the Centre's concerns. The proceedings of some of these seminars have been brought out in book form in English and Gujarati.

Attended by concerned scholars, activists, writers, artists, policy makers and others, these seminars and workshops have been on the following subjects:

• Decentralisation: two successive seminars in 1981 and 1982.

• Panchayati Raj and Scheduled Castes: in collaboration with the National Institute of Public

• Co-operation and Child Development, 1981.

• A Dialogue Between Voluntary Groups and Intellectuals: in collaboration with Lokayan, Delhi, in 1981.

• Land Reforms and the Rural Poor: 1981.

• Tribals and Rehabilitation: 1981.

• Reservation and Social Change: 1981.

• Caste and Class: 1981.

• Irrigation and the Problems of Development: 1982.

• Rehabilitation: 1982.

• Political Economy of Rehabilitation: 1982.

• Tuberculosis Control: 1982.

• The Surat Slums: in collaboration with the South Gujarat University and Chhatra Yuva Sangharsha Vahini, 1983.

• Tribal Education: 1984.

• Narmad and the Development of Social Reform in Gujarat: 1984.

• Industrial Labour and Social Change: 1985.

• Gujarat: Society and State - 1986.

• Literature and Social Change in Western India: 1986.

• Govardhanram Tripathi: Perspectives for a Socio-Intellectual History - 1987.

• Rural Development and the Rural Poor: 1987.

• The 1987 Famine in Western India: 1987.

• Literature and Group Identity Formation in Modern India: 1988.

• Dalit Literature: 1988.

• Nationalism: Problems and Challenges - 1988.

• Drought 1980s: Crisis and Response - 1988.

• Women and Work: 1990.

• Jotirao Phule: An Incomplete Renaissance - 1991.

• Economic Stratification and the Changing Nature of Caste in Western India: 1992.

• Urban Poor in India: 1993.

SEMINARS AND LECTURES DURING THE SILVER JUBILEE YEAR

Since it is but apt that we should provide a fillip to this growing tradition as part of our Silver Jubilee celebrations, we shall have the following lectures and seminars during the year:

• Uniform Civil Code and Changing Social Order [29 January]

• Communalism and Communal Violence in Western India [9-11 February]

• Eighth I.P. Desai Memorial Lecture [11 February]

• Western Regional Workshop on Panchayats [23-25 February] (held at Ahmedabad)

• Panchayati Raj and the Weaker Sections in Gujarat [25-26 May]

• Developmental Projects and People's Rehabilitation - Issues and Prospects [11-13 May]

• Land Reforms and Their Impact [9-11 June]

• Panchayati Raj and Women in Gujarat [25-26 June] (held at Rajkot)

• Business, Labour and Urban Growth in Surat City [16-17 September]

• International Seminar on Gujarat Society [6-9 December]

• Social Science Research in India: Challenges and Prospects [9 December]

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS ORGANISED BY CSS

Sr. No.	Topics	Year
1.	A Dialogue between Voluntary Groups and Intellectuals, in collaboration with Lokayan, Delhi	29-30 November 1980
2.	Reservation and Social Change	28 March 1981
3.	Caste and Class	April 1981
4.	Tribals and Rehabilitation	July 1981
5.	Land Reforms and the Rural Poor	October 1981
6.	Panchayati Raj and Scheduled Castes, in collaboration with the National Institute of Public Co-operation and Child Development	October 1981
7.	Rehabilitation: Issues and Challenges	24-25 July 1982
8.	Tuberculosis Control	26-27 August 1982
9.	Irrigation and the Problems of Development	December 1982
10.	Political Economy of Rehabilitation	23-24 December 1982
11.	The Surat Slums, in collaboration with the South Gujarat University and Chhatra Yuva Sangharsha Vahini	17 September 1983
12.	ÄÜàèÓÜ´ÜÏÜÜØ ôÜÏÜÜè ôÜàÁÜÜÓÜÃÜß Ý¹ïÜÜ: ôÜÏÜôÑÜÜ †ÃÜå ‹‘åêÜ	16-17 December 1983
13.	Tribal Education	7 January 1984
14.	Industrial Labour and Social Change	16-17 February 1985
15.	Literature and Social Change in Western India	26-28 February 1986
16.	Orientation Training Course on Better Utilization of Irrigation Resources, with the M.S. University of Baroda	13-31 May 1986
17.	International Seminar on Gujarat: Society and State	17-20 December 1986
18.	Govardhanram Tripathi: Perspectives for a Socio-Intellectual History	27-29 January 1987
19.	Rural Development and the Rural Poor	26-28 February 1987
20.	Literature and Group Identity Formation in Modern India	20-23 January 1988
21.	Dalit Literature	18-20 February 1988
22.	Nationalism: Problems and Challenges	10-12 March 1988
23.	Drought 1980s: Crisis and Response	12-14 December 1988
24.	Migrant Labour in India	4-5 August 1989
25.	Women and Work	23-25 January 1990
26.	Jotirao Phule: An Incomplete Renaissance	9-11 January 1991
27.	Economic Stratification and the Changing Nature of Caste in Western India	22-24 January 1992
28.	Urban Poor in India	10-11 February 1993
29.	Uniform Civil Code and Changing Social Order	29 January 1994
30.	Communalism and Communal Violence in Western India	9-11 February 1994
31.	Western Regional Workshop on Panchayati Raj	23-25 February 1994
32.	Developmental Projects and People's Rehabilitation – Issues and Prospects	11-13 May 1994
33.	ÆÜÝÓôÜØíÜÜ¹: ÄÜàèÓÜ´ÜÏÜÜØ ÆÜØœÜÜÑÜ´Üß ÓÜè †ÃÜå ÃÜËÜìÜ íÜÄÜÜåÚ	25-26 May 1994
34.	Land Reforms and Their Impact	9-10 June 1994
35.	ÆÜØœÜÜÑÜ´Üß ÓÜè †ÃÜå ÏÜÝ÷êÜÜ ôÜïÜÝ‘´Ü‘Ó±Ü	25-26 June 1994
36.	Business, Labour and Urban Growth in Surat City	16-17 September 1994
37.	An International Seminar on Gujarat Society	6-9 December 1994
38.	Social Science Research and Social Transformation	9 December 1994
39.	ôÜÜÝ÷´ÑÜ šÜåµÜå ÃÜÜÓß œÜå´ÜÃÜÜ †ØÄÜå ‘ÜÑÜÚïÜÜìÜ	16-17 November 1995
40.	Pre-Colonial India	9-10 December 1995
41.	Muslim Community in Western India	14-16 December 1995
42.	Social Justice: Notions and Realities	23 June 1996
43.	Human Rights: Dialogue	23-25 August 1996
44.	Tribal Policy	27 September 1996
45.	Concern for Social Justice: A Dialogue	30-31 December 1996
46.	Dialogue Series on Adivasis and Development with Reference to Constitutional Provisions	December 1996, January 1997 and 15 February 1997
47.	Tribals of Western India: Issues of Development and Marginalisation	24-25 January 1997
48.	Small Scale Industrial Development and Labour	26-27 March 1997
49.	Myths about Communalism and Communal Violence	12-13 November 1997
50.	Social Justice: Theory and Practice	7-9 December 1997
51.	Scavengers in Western India	11-12 December 1997
52.	Ethnography of Malaria in Surat District	5-6 March 1998
53.	Child Sex Workers in Gujarat	2-3 November 1998
54.	Child Labour in Gujarat: Image, Realities and Interventions	9-19 November 1998
55.	Modernity and Religion in Western India	23-24 March 1999
56.	Dalits and Social Conflict: Issues and Intervention with reference to Marathwada	3-4 April 2000
57.	Dalits and Social Conflict: Issues and Intervention with reference to Western Maharashtra	8-9 April 2000
58.	Dalits and Social Conflict: Issues and Intervention	7-8 June 2000
59.	ÄÜàèÓÜ´ÜßÏÜÜØ ôÜÏÜÜèÝíÜ¤ÜÜÃÜ êÜåƒÜÃÜ ´ÜÜêÜßÏÜ	7-9 August 2000
60.	ÆÜÂ³ÜÏÜ ôÜÜÏÜÜÝè‘ ÃÑÜÜÑÜ ôÜÝÏÜÝ´ÜÃÜÜ ôÜÍÑÜÜåÃÜß ´ÜÜêÜßÏÜ	16-17 March 2001
61.	Dalits, Identity and the Mainstream: An Interrogation	29-31 August 2001
62.	ÆÜÝÓôÜØíÜÜ¹: ôÜÜÝ÷´ÑÜÃÜÜå ôÜÜÏÜÜÝè‘ ôÜØ¹ÍÜÚ	3-4 December 2001
63.	Ý¿´ÜßÑÜ ôÜÜÏÜÜÝè‘ ÃÑÜÜÑÜ ôÜÝÏÜÝ´ÜÃÜÜ ôÜÍÑÜÜåÃÜß ´ÜÜêÜßÏÜ	22-23 January 2002
64.	¹ÝêÜ´Ü †´ÑÜÜœÜÜÓ ÝÃÜíÜÜÓ±Ü ‘ÜÑÜ¹Ü (†åü×ÜåôÜßüß †å‘ü)	15-16 February 2002
65.	´Üä´ÜßÑÜ ôÜÜÏÜÜÝè‘ ÃÑÜÜÑÜ ôÜÝÏÜÝ´ÜÃÜÜ ôÜÍÑÜÜåÃÜß ´ÜÜêÜßÏÜ	29-30 April 2002
66.	Slum Up-gradation Policy	4 May 2002
67.	Communal Harmony	22 December 2002
68.	Man-Hole Workers: Issues and Solutions	22 January 2003
69.	ÄÜàèÓÜ´ÜßÏÜÜØ ôÜØïÜÜåÁÜÃÜ ÆÜåÆÜÓÃÜØà êÜåƒÜÃÜ ´ÜÜêÜßÏÜ	5-6 March 2003
70.	Status of Civil Society in Present Context of Gujarat	29-30 August 2002
71.	Education and Society	18-20 December 2002
72.	ÄÜàèÓÜ´ÜÏÜÜØ ÆÜÂíÜ´ÜÚÏÜÜÃÜ ôÜØ¡åÄÜÜåÏÜÜØ ‘ÜåÏÜß ÆÜÂþÜÜå †ÃÜå ´Üå ôÜØ¹ÍÜåÚ ÃÜÜÄÜÝÓ‘ ôÜÏÜÜèÃÜß ÍÜâÝÏÜ‘Ü: †å‘ ôÜØíÜÜ¹	5-6 March 2004
73.	ÆÜÝÓôÜØíÜÜ¹: ôÜÜÝ÷´ÑÜ †ÃÜå ôÜÏÜÜè	28-29 May 2004
74.	Gandhian Ideas and Constructive Activities in Contemporary Gujarat	16-17 July 2004
75.	Gandhian Ideas and Constructive Activities in Contemporary Gujarat (Follow-up Workshop)	2 October 2004
76.	ÆÜÝÓôÜØíÜÜ¹: ôÜÜØÆÜÂ´Ü ôÜØ¹ÍÜÚ ÄÜàèÓÜ´ÜÏÜÜØ ¹ÝêÜ´ÜÜåÃÜß ïÜæšÜÝ±Ü‘ Ýô³ÜÝ´Ü	24-25 November 2004
77.	Islam and Muslim Women in India	3 February 2005
78.	Communal Questions: Myths and Facts	27 June 2005
79.	Tribal Migrant Workers in Gujarat: Problems and Possible Solutions	28 June 2005
80.	Ethics in Social Science Research	2-3 December 2005
81.	Construction Workers and Law	29-30 June 2006
82.	The Conditions of Marginal Groups in Contemporary India (Remembering Prof. S.P. Punalekar)	5-7 July 2006
83.	Reservation for Other Backward Communities (OBCs) (Symposium)	15 September 2006
84.	Livelihood Diversification and Coastal Resource Management	11-12 January 2007
85.	Status of Drinking Water in South Gujarat: Issues and Concerns	3 February 2007
86.	Healing, Medical Power and the Poor: Contests in Tribal India	21-23 March 2007
87.	Money Remittance Channels of Oriya Migrant Workers	8 June 2007
88.	Conditions and Consciousness of Construction Workers	14-15 June 2007
89.	The Sachar Committee Report (Dialogue)	30 October 2007
90.	Status of Drinking Water in South Gujarat: Issues and Concerns	11-12 March 2008
91.	A Comparative Perspectives on Ground Realities in Implementation of PESA in the States of Orissa and Gujarat	29-30 December 2010
92.	Migrant Workers in Surat: Related Issues	18 February 2011
93.	The Status of Social Sciences in Gujarat	28 February 2011
94.	Participatory Research: Theory and Application	12-13 March 2011
95.	International Conference on Gujarat Society after Five Decades: Retrospect and Prospect	18-19 January 2012
96.	Living-Working Conditions of Construction Workers	22 August 2012
97.	Building a Community Archive: Social and Technological Challenges in collection, Storage and Dissemination	13-14 October 2012
98.	Understanding Situation of Dalits of Gujarat with special reference to Dalit Exodus Phenomenon	17 February 2013
99.	The Use of SPSS on Educational Status of SCs and STs: Attainments & Challenges (Two workshops)	March 2013
100.	Training Workshops on the Foundation Skills for Data Analysis with SPSS (Four Phases)	April to July 2013
101.	Status of the Minorities in India and U.K.: With Special Reference to Women (Round Table discussion)	9 December 2013
102.	Unorganised Workers in Surat: Related Issues	24 March 2014

LECTURES/ COLLOQUIA AT THE CSS (2014-2015)

During the year, the Centre organised following talks under its colloquia programme:

• Arjun Patel (CSS), ‘Whether Social Science in Gujarat has remained value-loaded?’, 17th January 2015.

• Gopika Solanki (Carleton University, Canada), “Cultural Autonomy and Gender Equality?: Reframing the Debate on Religious Family Laws in India”, 17th December 2014.

• Kiran Desai (CSS), “Searching for Space in Globalisation Era: Fringe Sector Livelihood Earners in Urban Economy – The Case of Surat City of Gujarat”, 26th November 2014.

• Muni Raval, “Water and Sanitation: Rural Experiences of Desert and Rain Rich South Gujarat”, 26th September 2014.

• Indraneel Dasgupta (Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata), “Assimilation, Criminality and Ethnic Conflict”, 13th October 2014.

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