Indian Social Institute
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| Abbreviation | ISI |
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| Established | 1951 |
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Director
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Denzil Fernandes, SJ |
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Periodicals
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Social Action (quarterly) Legal News and Views (monthly) Women’s link (quarterly) Hashiye Ki Awaaz (monthly/Hindi) |
| Affiliations | Jesuit, Catholic |
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Staff
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50 |
| Website | ISI |
The Indian Social Institute [ISI], founded in 1951 in Pune (India), is a Jesuit-inspired centre for research, training, and action for socio-economic development and human rights in India. Founded by Jerome D'Souza, S.J., in Pune, it was shifted to New Delhi in 1963 where it is located at the Lodi Institutional Area.
Even though the Society of Jesus was active in the social field right from the end of the 19th century, following on the Rerum novarum encyclical of Leo XIII, it became more actively so after the second world war. In 1949, Superior General Jean-Baptiste Janssens wrote an ‘Instruction on the Social Apostolate’ (10 October 1949) - the first letter ever entirely given to this new apostolic field - calling for a new ‘social mentality’ among the Jesuits. To achieve this he asked that Jesuit formation programmes be revised, education curriculum in Jesuit schools and colleges be adapted, and centres specialized in social information and action be opened. Even the more spiritual kind of apostolic work (Marian congregation, Spiritual Exercises, and retreat work) were not to remain unaffected.
As a response to this, in 1951, the Indian Institute of Social Order was founded in Pune (India) by Jesuit Father Jerome D'Souza, a well-known educationist and member of the Indian Constituent Assembly. Started soon after the independence of India it was meant to help Indian Christians in general, and Jesuits in particular, to enter more actively into the issues of the common socio-economic national welfare. It was meant in the words of its founder to "contribute to the emergence of a new social order in post-independence India."
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