*Assistant Professor, Centre for South Asian Studies, Pondicherry University, India. Email id: sheikhumayun@gmail.com
**PhD Research Scholar, Centre for South Asian Studies, Pondicherry University, India. Email id: aprameyamohanty@hotmail.com
Online published on 16 July, 2018.
The social science discipline in India changed according to the change experienced by the country in political spheres which means during colonial period the British governments used social scientists to solve their own problems by engaging them to study the Indian caste and tribe which ultimately helped them to govern the nation and functioning of administration smoothly. During post-colonial period the focus of social science research gradually shifted to the development issues and the impact of development programmes on the weaker sections and issues related to social inequality, regional disparity and many others gained prominence. Similarly during 1990s the subject further moved forward where interdisciplinary research areas dominated the field and classic subjects like anthropology, political science and history were pushed to the crisis. Keeping this in background this paper seeks to analyse how in the Indian social science research these subjects have major role to play.
Post-Colonial, Anthropology, Interdisciplinary, Inequality
