Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

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Message From the Head of Department

Prof. Rajesh Kumar (Head)
Welcome to the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences! This Department is one of the constitutive units of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras at Chennai. We are proud of our inter and intra disciplinary diversity. As an academic unit, we come from a diverse range of disciplinary training.

Announcements / News

Memory, Narrative Designs, and Strategies of Preservation INMS 2025 conference (27-29 October 2025 ) | Certificate Course on Ethics in the Teaching Profession (March 21-25, 2025)

About the Department

The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) is one of the oldest departments at IIT Madras. Offering both Master’s and Doctoral programmes, as well as electives for B.Tech and M.Tech students, the department boasts a well-balanced student-teacher ratio and comprises faculty from a wide range of related fields.

Achievements

Publications

Radeef Chundakkadan, Subash S., Ketan Reddy (2025). The Role of Export Incentives and Bank Credit on the Export Survival of Firms in India During COVID-19. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1540496X.2025.2474718
Drall, A., & Mandal, S.K. (2025) Does Non-Farm Income Raise Farm Productivity? New Evidence from India. Journal of Development Studies (doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2025.2467661)
Sreekumar, G. and Mandal S,K. (2025). Confidence or corruption? Assessing the impact of political connections on confidence in public institutions in India. Applied Economics Letters. (doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2025.2466750)
Drall, A., & Mandal, S.K. (2025) Does Non-Farm Income Raise Farm Productivity? New Evidence from India (Accepted for publication in Journal of Development Studies)
Drall, A., & Mandal, S. K. (2025). Does multiple job holding raise labour use efficiency of the farm operators? Evidence from rural India. Applied Economics, 1–16.
Prasad V, Thampi BV(2024, forthcoming), Consolidating Feminist Collectivities: Gleaning from Survivors Response, Economic and Political Weekly. (accepted for publication).
Traversing Boundaries: Contemporary Hindi Cinema at International Film Festivals’ . South Asian Popular Culture. Taylor & Francis.Vol 21, Issue 1, 2023, pp. 89-103, (co-author Sanchari Basu Chaudhuri).
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rsap20/21/1
Lieber J, Clarke L, Kinra S, Nadal I P, and Thampi, BV (2023). “Day and night people run after money … where is the time to spend chit-chatting with parents?”: Challenges of, and coping strategies for, supporting older relatives in adults of varied socioeconomic backgrounds in Tamil Nadu, India, SSM – Qualitative Research in Health, Volume 3.
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100262
Towards a Better Measure of Productivity in India: A Case of Chemical and Chemical Products Industry (with Vipin V.), Indian Growth and Development Review, 16 (2), 105-122, 2023. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IGDR-08-2022-0092/full/html