Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute, it is affiliated to the University of Allahabad. The mission of the Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute is to create new knowledge in the field of social sciences. The researchers confront the emerging challenges in the continuously changing society with new paradigms and concepts, developing critical approaches to studying social phenomenon, generating new ideas, collecting empirical evidence from the ground level and constructing a dialogical engagement with policy making and social agents. Putting research in the public domain in the form of books and articles is the priority, followed by dialogue with the State and advocacy with civil society.