Welcome to Inter
Disciplinary School (IDS)

Interdisciplinary
School (I.D.S.)
(Humanities and Social Sciences)
Location
The I.D.S. is located at the first floor of Dr. Babasaheb
Ambedkar
Bhavan in the backside wing housing the Departments of Defense
Studies and Economics also.
The Interdisciplinary School provides a common platform to all the
Departments that come under the Humanities and Social Sciences. In
the present age of communication-revolution and knowledge-explosion,
the rigid boundaries between Disciplines rewithering away. The
dialogue between disciplines is being enhanced. It has become
necessary to remove the ‘deafness of specialization’ for the
comprehensive understanding of human realities. Every social
scientist is supposed to play at once a triple role of a specialist,
a generalist and an interdisciplinary. Under such conditions, the
interdisciplinary studies are becoming very important all over the
world. The Indian Universities are launching and promoting the
interdisciplinary research and activities on a greater scale. The
activities of our Department (I.D.S.), therefore, have a vital
importance in the Pune University structure. Keeping this in mind,
the Pune University authorities have revived the I.D.S.