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D. D. Kosambi School of Social Sciences and Behavioural Studies

Goa University, Goa

The D.D. Kosambi School of Social Sciences and Behavioural Studies (DDKSSSBS) is named after Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907–1966), the prominent Goan multi-faceted intellectual usually remembered as a historian, mathematician, statistician, Indologist, philologist and polymath. The DDKSSSBS is established in 2022 by integrating the existing Departments on the Goa University campus and the affiliated Colleges. It covers a wide range of disciplines with differing methodologies, and includes History (1965 Centre for Post-Graduate Instruction & Research at Goa – CPIR affiliated to the then University of Bombay) Political Science (1973 – CPIR), Sociology (1974 – CPIR), Geography, Psychology, Education (Education, Physical Education, Special Education) Library and Information Science, Journalism, Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Logic, and Minority Studies.


With the spirit of integration, the school aims to build on vibrant pluralistic ethos and the intellectual diversity that has been the hallmark of the state. The DDKSSSBS is highly multidisciplinary and focuses on developing strong teaching and research programmes that advance our understanding of Goa and production of new knowledge.