Is Social Science A Science ?

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Is Social Science a Science? emerges from a Brain Storming Session (BSS), on the subject, organized by the North-Eastern Regional Centre of the Indian Council of Socail Science Research, involving a group of social scientists at the North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. The scholars from sociology, political science, history, economics, geography, anthropology and philosophy, freely expressed themselves on the issue from the perspectives of their respective disciplines. About Author : Professor of History at the North-Eastern Hill University, Shilong and the founder Vice-Chancellor of Assam University, Silchar, Professor J.B. Bhattacharjee is well knwon as a historian and a social scientists. Author of ten books and more than two hundred and fifty research papers, his major works are Cachar Under British Rule in North East India (New Delhi, 1977) The Garos and the English (New Delhi, 1978), Social and Polity Formation in Precolonial North East India(New Delhi, 1991), Trade and Colony: The British Colonization of North East India (Shilong, 2000) and Bhauma-Naraka Legend and State Formation in Progjyotisha-Karmarupa (Shilolong, 2004).