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PhD Program in Humanities and Social Sciences at IITs

• April 5, 2022
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  The Department of Humanities & Social Sciences at various IITs offers a Ph.D. program in different academic disciplines such as English, Economics, Philosophy, Psychology and Sociology, Fine Arts, Linguistics, Policy, History, Archaeology, Political Science, Geography, Development Studies, etc. The Department’s curricula aligned with its academic vision aim to cultivate critical and innovative thinking and impart training required to carry out the highest level of multi-disciplinary research. To fulfill its teaching and research goals, the Department has competent faculty members in diverse areas who keep pace with the current developments in their fields of specialization.

Apart from the facilities made available to all students at the Institute level, at the department level, the students have access to the resources available in the Department’s Library, Computer Labs, etc. The departments also house teaching laboratories such as Language laboratory, Behavioural and Cognitive Science laboratory, Econometrics laboratory, Psychology laboratory, and more. These laboratories help students improve their language and communication skills, train students in subjects like psychology and other allied behavioral sciences, etc. A good library is always the nucleus of a vibrant research ethos. These Departments have their own library with an outstanding collection of books and journals that help strengthen the research of students and faculty members.

Research Areas in Humanities & Social Sciences at IITs

Research in Humanities & Social Sciences at IITs covers all the areas of English, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Fine Arts, etc. The core areas of research are:

Cognitive Linguistics, Pragmatics, American Literature, Critical and Literary Theory, Postcolonial Theory and Literature, Indian literature and literary theory, Translation Studies, Literary Censorship, Postmodern Theory and Literature, The Anthropocene Literature, Climate Fiction, and Cli-Fi Films, Cyberpunk and Biopunk, Critical Theory, Cybercriticism, Ecocriticism, Language Documentation And Description, Linguistic Typology, Historical Linguistics, Postcolonial Literature, Indian Writings in English, Life Writings, English Language Teaching, Applied Cognitive Linguistics, Curriculum, and Syllabus Design, Linguistics, Language Variation, History of Film Theory, Aesthetic Politics, World Cinema, Critical Theory

Visual and Media Arts, Design, Visual Culture, Frugal Innovation, Visual thinking, Art history, Graphic Art, Painting, Studio Art practices, Art History, Art Appreciation, Visual Culture, Cinema Studies, New-Media & Mixed-Media Art, Calligraphy, Oil Painting, Sculpture

  Philosophy

Logic, Formal Epistemology, General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Aesthetics, Philosophy and Literature, Phenomenology, Existentialism, Hermeneutics, Gandhi Studies, Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Evolutionary Epistemology, Philosophy of Science (Biology), Cognition, Creativity

Health Psychology, Social Representations, Illness Narratives, Social Cognition, Organizational Cognition, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Affective Processes, Psychological Assessment, Trauma Psychology, Applied Social Psychology, Disaster Mental Health, Qualitative Methodology, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Science, Embodied Cognition, Action, Agency, and Self

Social Demography, Rural Development, Social Statistics, Sociology of Science and Technology, Sociology of Development, Social Movements, Human Rights, Social Movements, Law and Governance, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Law, Economic Sociology, Sociology of Work, New Media Studies (identification, everyday use), Social Geography, Sociology of Money, Environmental Sociology, Social Network Analysis

The Department of Humanities & Social Sciences at the Indian Institutes of Technology in Delhi , Bombay , Madras , Kanpur , Kharagpur , Roorkee , and Guwahati provides an outstanding research environment complemented by excellence in teaching. All other IITs also offer excellent research programs in Humanities & Social Sciences.

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The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Guwahati is a centre for research and teaching composed of academics from eleven different disciplines: Economics, English, Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, History, Archaeology, Political Science, Geography, Development Studies. With its varied range of research interests and expertise, the department promotes interdisciplinary work in humanities and social sciences, offering projects, supervision and fellowships aimed to attract students and researchers from diverse academic and cultural backgrounds. Apart from its undergraduate B.Tech taught courses which include uniquely designed content offered by members of faculty, the department offers highly interdisciplinary areas of expertise and investigation in its MA and PhD programmes.

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The programme offers a unique combination of training in theoretical analysis and abstract thinking with the practical application of these skills through rigorous coursework and mentored projects.

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Sukanya Sharma " CULTURAL HERITAGE MANAGERS: AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE", Legal News and Views , [2024]

Deepen Naorem, Sanasam Ranbir Singh, Priyankoo Sarmah " Improving linear orthogonal mapping based cross-lingual representation using ridge regression and graph centrality", Computer Speech & Language , [2024]

Sarthak Kumar Das and Sambit Mallick " Repossession through community participation: A study of Vrihi community seed bank in Odisha", Social Change , [2024]

Sumit Vij, Jeroen Warner, PhD; Anusha Mehta; Anamika Barua " Status quo in transboundary waters: unpacking non-decision making and non-action", Global Environmental Change , [2024]

Priyankoo Sarmah, Caroline R Wiltshire " Acoustic properties of the monophthongs of Assamese Indian English speakers", World Englishes , [2024]

Debapriya Basu " “Here doth Shee Mourne:” Epitaphic Compulsion in Isabella Whitney’s Lament upon William Gruffith’s Death", Women's Writing , [2024]

Hemanta Baruah, Sanasam Ranbir Singh, Priyankoo Sarmah " Transliteration Characteristics in Romanized Assamese Language Social Media Text and Machine Transliteration", ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing , [2024]

Rohit, Sukanya Sharma " Identifying anthropogenic and palaeoenvironmental markers of Holocene prehistoric assemblages of Northeast India: A case study of Khasi Hills (Meghalaya)", Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports , [2024]

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Humanities and Social Sciences

Integrating human values and social concerns with technical education

Prof. S. P. Singh

Welcome to the department! The department is involved in several teaching and research activities all round the year. We encourage motivated students and faculty members to join our department.

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• Shortlisted Ph.D. Candidates (2023-24 Rolling)
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• Digitalisation and Inclusive Banking: Vision for the Next 25 Years (Aug 3-4, 2023)
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• National Seminar on Revamping Indian Tradition and Culture Through NEP 2020 (Aug 18-19, 2023)
• National Conference on Tribal Development in India: Prospect and Retrospect (Feb 03-04)
• End Semester Exam Schedule for 2021-22 Autumn Session (UG Yr-I)
• Department Lecture Series (Jan 31, 2022 - 3pm) Speaker: Padma Shree Prof. Michel Danino (IIT Gandhinagar), Topic: The Harappan civilization and the problem of sustainability
• Congratulations to Mr. Vaibhav Mohare (M.Sc. Economics, 2017-19) for being selected for Indian Economic Service.
• 62nd Annual Conference of Indian Society of Labour Economics (Apr 11-13, 2022)
• Timetable for 2021-22 Spring Session
• Capacity Building Programme on Quantitative and Qualitative Methods for Research in Social Sciences (Postponed due to COVID)
• Celebrating Unheard Voices of Charismatic Women in Indian Writing in English (Dec 3-4, 2021)
• Workshop on Econometric Methods for Economic and Business Research
• Prospectus of newly launched BS-MS (Economics) Programme
• Approved Program Structure of BS-MS (Economics) Programme
• Ph.D Admission for 2021-22 Spring Session - Guidelines

Disciplines

The department is broadly organized into following discipline areas, and encourages inter-disciplinary studies.

Agriculture, Banking & Finance, Development, Ecology, Health, Labor, Migration, Productivity, ...

Culture & Gender, Indian writing in English, Linguistics, Literature (British, Folk, Postcolonial, South Asian), Translation Studies, ...

Cognitive Psychology, Organizational Behavior-Quality of Work, Social Psychology, Visual Attention & Memory, ...

Agrarian Studies, Gerontology, Political Ecology, Political Sociology, Sociology of Health & Work, Sociology of Tribes, ...

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Situated in a green campus, the department encourages various activities for students' all-round development.

Explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and we will give you a complete account of the system.

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Admissions Necessary forms, during admissions and other general purposes, will either be sent by email or be made available on the department/institute homepage (check for updates). Forms for any specific purposes can be collected from the department office .

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Internships IIT Roorkee offers SPARK fellowships ↗ for summer internships to students from IIT Roorkee and other universities and institutes.

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PhD Program

Program Structure

The PhD programme in the Department of Liberal Arts offers resources that enable our students to do world-class research—passionate and committed faculty members, a rapidly growing library, generous monthly fellowships, and ample grants for fieldwork and conference travel. Students collaborate closely with faculty mentors and produce high quality publications in addition to their PhD dissertations. The Liberal Arts Department currently offers PhD Programmes in the following disciplines:

 Anthropology and Sociology

 cognitive sciences,  development studies,  economics,  linguistics,  literature and cultural studies,  psychology.

The PhD programme in Liberal Arts has three main components: coursework, publications, and a dissertation. Here’s a rough outline of a typical PhD programme:

A typical 3 credit course has 3 lectures a week leading to 42 lecture hours in a semester. Fractional credits can be 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0 having 7, 14, 21, 28, 35 and 42 lecture hours respectively.

The Masters program in Development Studies is a two-year full-time program with a total of 60 credits spread over four semesters and a two-month internship period. Each semester comprises 16 weeks, with one mid-term break week, and one final semester exam week. Kindly consult IIT academic calendar for enquiries about mid-term break week and final semester exam week.

Time Table January - May 2024

Course Instructors

Indian Institute for Technology Hyderabad (IITH) invites applications for admission to the PhD program in the Department of Liberal Arts. For the January 2023 admissions, we invite applications in the following areas:

 Cognitive Sciences (UGC-JRF, CSIR-JRF, ICMR, MoE, GATE PhD fellowships)

 development studies (ugc-jrf, moe),  economics (ugc-jrf, external),  literature and cultural studies (ugc-jrf, moe),  psychology (ugc-jrf, icmr), categories for admission.

MoE/Institute Fellowship: This is a full-time program; candidates should not be employed in any organization. UGC-JRF and other fellowships from outside IIT Hyderabad: This is a full-time program; candidates should not be employed in any organization. External: This category is for working professionals.

Minimum Eligibility Criteria

 moe/institute fellowship.

55% marks or equivalent CGPA in the Master’s degree in the subject or allied areas. For obtaining MoE/Institute fellowship, a candidate must have qualified the UGC-NET or GATE or an equivalent qualifying examination. Shortlisted candidates must pass a written test and/or interview conducted by the Department of Liberal Arts, IITH. Candidates must also provide the evidence of passing UGC-NET/equivalent qualifying examination. Failure to provide final proof of the qualifying degree (Masters degree, etc.) at the time of registration at IIT Hyderabad will lead to the cancellation of the applicant’s admission.

 UGC-JRF or Comparable Fellowship

UGC-JRF or Comparable Fellowship: 55% marks or equivalent CGPA in the Master’s degree in the subject or allied areas. Shortlisted candidates must pass a written test and/or interview conducted by the Department of Liberal Arts. Candidates must also provide documentary evidence of qualifying for UGC-JRF/equivalent fellowship. Failure to provide final proof of the qualifying degree (Masters degree, etc.) at the time of registration at IIT Hyderabad will lead to the cancellation of the applicant’s admission.

 External

55% marks or equivalent CGPA in the Master’s degree in the subject or allied areas. Shortlisted candidates must pass a written test and/or interview conducted by the Department of Liberal Arts. Those employed (full-time/part-time) in any organization should produce a no-objection certificate from their employer to be eligible to write the written test and/or appear for the interview. Candidates should have a minimum work experience of two years following the Masters degree. Failure to provide final proof of the qualifying degree (MA, MSc, etc.) at the time of registration at IIT Hyderabad will lead to the cancellation of the applicant’s admission.

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Suryakant Waghmore

Dr. Waghmore has B.A in Political Science, History and Economics from Karnataka University (1999) and M.A in Community Development  from TISS (2001). He completed his PhD in Sociology as a Commonwealth Scholar from University of Edinburgh (2010). 

Before joining IIT Waghmore was Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for Social Justice and Governance at TISS. He has held visiting professorship at School of Social Development and Policy, Fudan University (2019), Centre for South Asia - Stanford University (2013); School of Humanities - Hyderabad Central University (2011); Centre for Modern Indian Studies - Univeristy of Göttingen (2015). 

Research Interests

My research has encompassed a mixed method approach to study social exclusion, politics at margins, policy processes and state-civil society relations. I have been using ethnography, with other qualitative research methods and descriptive statistics to underline how social exclusion operates in India. Ethnography has helped me keep my research outcomes nuanced. For instance while studying caste, I have focused on aspects of emotions – humour and anger to theorise caste better. This has helped me frame broader theoretical arguments on vernacular modernity in Indian subcontinent.

On the other hand I have also done policy relevant research that has helped corporations and state bodies. I have completed a research on Katkaris, one of the most vulnerable tribal groups in Maharashtra. While working with govt. and non-government development agencies over the years, I closely observed the influence of cultural politics on development processes and how state and non-state actors converge and disperse to institutionalize deprivation. This interface of culture, state and social exclusion processes has continued to be a major area of my research interest.

My research also explores social movements of  traditionally marginalised groups and their attempts of achieving genuine civility and democracy in the Indian context. Current research interest includes a focus on changing forms of caste etiquette in modern India.

Faculty Publications

Forthcoming Books

  Withering Caste in Urban Locales.  Based on a research project funded by ICSSR, explores and compares the cities of Mumbai and Ahmedabad.  

Books Published

Crisis in Civility: Democracy, Equality and Majoritarian Challenge in India. Co-edited with Hugo Gorringe, Routledge 2020 .

From Margins to Mainstream: Institutionalising Minorities in South Asia.  Co-edited Book with Hugo Gorringe and Roger Jeffery, Sage 2015 .

Civility against Caste: Dalits Politics and Citizenship in Western India,  Sage Publications London/Delhi, 2013.

Chapters in Edited Books and Journal Articles 

The Kshatriya Victim: Marathas and Social Power in Maharashtra, Symposium of India Seminar on Victimhood, December 2019 (In Press).

Modernity without Alterity: Deshastha Brahmins and Urbanism in Mumbai, Sujata Patel eds. Exploring Sociabilities of Contemporary India: New Perspectives , Orient Blackswan 2019.

Community not Humanity: Caste Associations and Hindu Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Mumbai, South Asia, Vol.42, No.2. April 2019.

Go write on the walls that you are the ruler of this nation’: Dalit Mobilisation and the BJP, (with Hugo Goringe) Indian Politics and Policy Journal . Vol. 2, No-1, April 2019  

“Hierarchy without System: Why civility matters in the study of caste”,  in Sanjay Srivastava, Yasmin Arif, Janaki Abraham eds. Critical Themes in Indian Sociology [Sage Publication, New Delhi 2019]

“From Hierarchy to Hindu Politeness”, in Surinder Jodhka and James Manor eds. Waning Hierarchies, Persistent Inequalities, Caste and Power in 21st Century India. [ 2018 Orient Longman New Delhi].

Challenging Normalised Exclusion: Humor and Hopeful Rationality in Politics , in Gorringe et.al Institutionalising Marginal Actors: Processes, Politics and Pitfall [Sage, New Delhi].

 Social science research and inclusive polices: a focus on Adivasis, Dalits and Muslims (With Hugo Gorringe)." The South Asianist 3.1 (2014).

 Dalits, Muslims and Normalised Incivilities in Neoliberal India in Brij Mohan (eds) Frontiers of Global Social Development. 2015 -Palgrave: NY [with Qudsiya Contractor]

 Beyond Depoliticization? Caste, NGOs and Land Rights in Maharashtra, India in Development and Change . 2012. Vol.43 (6).

 Gandhi’s Thoughts on Development: A Critical Appraisal, Journal of ComparativeSocial Welfare . 2004, Vol.20, No-2, Pp 55-70.

 Rural Development: Role of State. Economic and Political Weekly , 2002, vol-37(29) Pp-3001-3003.

  Book Reviews

Bridging the Social Gap by Sukhdeo Thorat and Human Rights as Practice by J Mangubhai. Social Change Vol 46, Issue 4, 2016 

‘ The Problem of Caste ’, Contributions to Indian Sociology, Vol 49, Issue 3, 2015

Globalising Social Justice, Social Movement Studies 2011, Vol.10 Issue 4 (Book Review)

‘The Caste Question: Dalits and Politics of Modern India’, Contributions to Indian Sociology , 2010. Vol 44, No.3, Pp 440-443. (Book Review)

Newspaper Columns/ Magazine Articles (Select)  

Assembly polls: One thing is for certain – Maharashtra will continue to be Maratha-rashtra.  Scroll .in, October 19, 2019

Sociology for the Aryavrat, The Wire , November 3rd 2019

The Making of Hindu Cosmopolitanism in Urban India. By Invitation in LSE Blogs

Competing Armies of Bhim, India Today September 21, 2018

Not Hindu Nationalism, the trump card of BJP is nationalist Hinduism, Scroll .in,  March 18, 2018

In Good vs Bad Hindu Politics in Gujarat,  Outlook , December 30, 7017.

Vegetarianism in India has more to do with caste hierarchy than love for animals,  Hindustan Times , April 7, 2017

Hindu Nationalism and the Problem of Trust.  Outlook , March 3, 2016. 

Shaking up our village culture, The Hindu , March 17, 2015

Prejudice disguised as Politeness,   The Hindu , May 30, 2015

My Interviews (Select) 

India Tomorrow: What Young Indians Want. The Conversation, UK , May 14, 2019 

Patel rhetoric is nowhere close to Mandal agitation. Business Standard . Aug 29, 2015

Subalterns have a role in making of civil society, Round Table . February 2010

Why are the Gujjars Protesting? Voice of America, May 2007

Conferences

Education and Culture: An Evaluation Study of TAPAS. Funded by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (June 2019 – November, 2019) 

Politics of Hope in Europe and India. (With Indrajit Roy, York University and  Carole Gayet, CNRS-Paris,  funded by EQUiP – Europe India Platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities, 2019-2021)

Caste and Colonialism, Funded by IRCC-IITB. Explores at the political use of violence by Marathas against Brahmans in Postcolonial Bombay.

Completed - Recent

Withering Caste in Urban Locales: A study of Ahmadabad and Mumbai. Funded by ICSSR (2015-2019).

Socio-Economic Status of Katkari Tribe, for Government of Maharashtra: (Completed May 2015). Using mixed methods, this research study focused on the socio-economic study of Katkaris (listed as a Primitive Tribal Group). The study used ethnography, qualitative interviews, and household surveys [to calculate multidimensional poverty]. The Maharashtra Governors Office [through Development Board] funded this research study. This report  is available on the website of the Governor of Maharashtra. 

Marginal Populations, Social Mobilisation and Development – A research collaboration between Tata Institute of Social Sciences and University of Edinburgh, funded by British Council, I was the project in-charge for India Side. [Total Project Grant £ 250000] 2012-2018.

Courses Taught

I have taught undergraduates and postgraduates of social sciences and engineering background at Edinburgh University, Göttingen University, Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay. My teaching has varied from courses in research methods, social theory, political economy of social welfare, civil society, development theories, caste in south asia, and politics and citizenship in India. 

I have eight PhD students working under my supervision at IITB. Two candidates have completed PhD under my supervision from TISS and I have supervised research projects of several MPhil students.