The Asiatic Society for Social Science Research (also known as ASSSR) is an autonomous research body, originally constituted as a Body of Individuals on September 2, 2019. Following a subsequent revision to its Memorandum of Association, it has now been registered and established under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860, with its operational area covering all of India.

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The Society continues to function with the same aims, objectives, and registration, retaining its existing NITI Aayog Unique ID Number: DL/2021/0287154.

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The aims and objectives of the society are as follows: —

• To promote and coordinate Social Science research.

• To serve as forum for exchange of views through Annual Sessions, Conferences, Seminars, Symposium, etc.

• To help in the preservation of historical monuments and archaeological sources.

• To establish archive(s) and museum(s) virtually or physical or both to promote cultural heritage.

• To honor social scientists, who made substantial contributions in the field of Social Sciences.

• To establishing a publication division or(and) house.

• To establish teaching institute delving in multidisciplinary studies including social sciences, sciences, humanities, arts, etc.

• To establishing a non-formal research institute, providing teaching and research methods in non-prioritized areas of social sciences on a no-profit no-loss basis.

• To provide publishing platform to researchers and scholars from Social Science field.

• To promote and publish original articles in the relevant field of Social Sciences aiming to reduce the gap between research and practice.

• To the development of theory and practice of Social Science domains.

• To give scholars a chance to be part of the scholar community who assists and helps others in publication and review.

• To make online repository of the research papers and scholarly articles affordable or free of cost to all users without any subscription.

• To make print version of the research papers and scholarly articles affordable.

• To create avenues for promotion and publication of research papers about and from socially, economically and culturally weakened sections of the society across the globe.

• To make research publication hassle free to ensure sharing of knowledge in due course of time.

• To strengthen the research ecosystem by establishing a Component on Research and Development.

• To facilitate the researchers, resource persons, practitioners, and scholars to come on a platform and to share their findings of the research with the rest of the world so that informed decisions can be taken to improve academics, businesses and societies as a whole.

• To launch special series in the form of books, edited volumes, proceedings, etc. in times of need.

• To conduct special initiatives in the form of short-term (ranging from one months to six months) courses either certificate or non-certificate to facilitate researchers, resource persons, practitioners, scholars, etc. as per Government of India norms.

• To conduct special initiatives in the form of long-term (ranging from six months to twelve months) courses either certificate or non-certificate to facilitate researchers, resource persons, practitioners, scholars, etc. as per Government of India norms.

• To keep the platform as inclusive as possible by keeping it open to theoretical, methodological, quantitative, and qualitative scholarships from all the areas within the Social Sciences, defined as the academic disciplines concerned with the study of society, and their relationship between individuals within societies.

• To provide for higher education leading to excellence and innovations in such branches of knowledge as may be deemed fit, primarily at undergraduate, post-graduate, and research degree levels, fully conforming to the concept of a university as its one of the Components.

• To engage in interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary or trans-disciplinary teaching and research in addition to domain-specific specialization.

• To provide multidisciplinary and a holistic education in the faculties of science, engineering, technology, social sciences, arts, humanities, sports and other disciplines.

• To maintain and develop the Institute as a Centre of Excellence for teaching, research, and demonstration of innovative field interventions or action projects for improving quality of human life and living conditions.

• To receive and administer funds for the implementation of the above said objectives.

• To do all such things as may be necessary, incidental or conducive to the attainment of all or any including the future aims and objectives of the Society.

• All the income, earning, movable & immovable properties of the society shall be solely utilized & applied towards the promotion of its aim & objects only as set forth in the Memorandum of Association & no portion thereof shall be paid or transferred directly or indirectly by way of dividends, bonus, profits or in any manner whatsoever to the present or past members of the society or to any person claiming through any one or more of the present or the past member. No member of the society shall have personal claim on any moveable property of the society or make any profit, whatsoever, by virtue of his/her membership.