The Indian Social Science scene is notable for the relative lack of effective contact among research institutes and equally, if not to a greater degree, between the latter and universities and colleges. While attempts at interinstitutional collaboration have been made in different parts of the country they have tended to suffer from lack of continuity. Contacts among social scientists have largely remained confined to single discipline conferences and subsets therein. Yet another absentee feature is a forum devoted to a discussion of development related questions although most social science meets naturally assign more than adequate share to them.