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Social Scientist

New Delhi-based journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ7550803 ↗
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Social Scientist is an Indian academic journal published by the Indian School of Social Sciences and Tulika Books in the areas of social sciences and humanities. The journal is based in New Delhi and has been running since 1972. It is edited by the Jawaharlal Nehru University social scientist Prabhat Patnaik. The Managing Editor is Rajendra Prasad. The journal is indexed in the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences and the Bibliography of Asian Studies.

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The public source identifies “Social Scientist” as new Delhi-based journal. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Social, Scientist and Delhi-based.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Social, Scientist and Delhi-based providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Social Scientist” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.