The Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) has launched a new research fellowship programme on the theme “Youth and Decolonisation”, offering grants of ₹3 lakh each for 600 projects over eight months to encourage an “Indian-centric approach” to knowledge and challenge “Eurocentric frameworks” across disciplines. ICSSR launches ₹18-crore research scheme for undergraduates The programme invites fourth year undergraduate students to undertake research on themes ranging from revisiting Indo-Aryan migration theories and “moving beyond Macaulay” in education to re-examining governance and political thought through thinkers such as Kautilya, Mahatma Gandhi and VD Savarkar. The programme, launched under the Yuva Shodh Pratibha Scheme (YSPS), is open to students in seventh and eighth semesters of the Four-Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) introduced under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. In a first, ICSSR will support 600 undergraduate research projects under eight sub-themes on decolonisation, with a total outlay of ₹18 crore. ICSSR, an autonomous body under the Union ministry of education, said the initiative aims to promote the “decolonisation of knowledge” and encourage theoretical and critical inquiry in …