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The paper provides an overview of the evolution of Social Sciences with a focus on the Post-1945 period, known for major strides towards scientific, analytical, nonpartisan, multi-disciplinary and comprehensive study and research in different fields of Social Sciences. The paper discusses the gradual growth of Social Sciences in Pakistan in terms of increase in number of persons engaged in teaching, research and practice in various domains of Social Sciences, institutional facilities and availability of funds. There is a discussion of the major features of the research work done in Social Sciences in Pakistan and its weaknesses and deficiencies. The paper argues that Social Sciences have become important for societies like Pakistan that face different types of social and political conflicts. The rise of religious extremism, violence and terrorism also requires that we benefit from the work done in different fields of Social Sciences for understanding the dynamics of societal trends, issues and conflict and how to address them. The paper also reviews teaching and research being done in Pakistani universities, especially since 2005, when more funds became available for study and research in Social Sciences. The universities have vastly expanded their Doctoral and M.Phil. porgrammes but the imperative of quality is often neglected.

Change of ritual practice under communism : the case of the Russian Orthodox Church in Soviet Ukraine in the late 1950s- early 1970s / Natalia Shlikhta -- The erosion of tradition : life cycle rites among the Orthodox in the Prikam'e Region (1950s-1980s) / Svetlana Riazanova -- The Rybnitser Rebbe and Underground Jewish religious life in the Soviet town of Rybnitsa (1960s-1970s) / Maria Kaspina -- Funeral and memorial rites of Moscow Muslims in the 1960s-1980s / Islam Zaripov and Marat Safarov -- The boundaries of legality as an approach to the study of Soviet religious policy : the case of evangelical Christians-Baptists / Johannes Dyck -- Trying to leave the religious underground : registration of Catholic communities in late Soviet Kazakhstan / Jerzy Rohozinski -- The activism of Soviet Pentecostals in the 1960s-1980s / Vera Kliueva -- Gender specificity of protest activism in unregistered groups of evangelical Christians-Baptists in the late Soviet Union / Nadezhda Beliakova -- A Christian feminism in the USSR? : a historical overview of the religious women's club "Mariia" (1980-1982) / Anna Sidorevich -- Startsy, samizdat and underground seminars : the religious life of young Russian Orthodox converts in the 1970s-1980s / Barbara Martin -- Anatolii Vaneev's circle as a phenomenon of informal church community in Leningrad in the 1970s-1980s / Anna Lepekina -- Longing for Truth, morality, and enchantment : late Soviet spiritual searches and journeys to Islam, 1970s-1980s / Eva Rogaar -- The entry of Indian spiritual movements into the cultural space of Soviet Latvia in the 1970s-80s / Solveiga Krumina-Konkova -- Astrological samizdat in the context of (post-)Soviet esoteric culture / Anna Tessman.

This book offers glimpses into the spread of Maoism in India and Nepal by tracing some of its effects on the lives of ordinary people living amidst the revolutions. Weaving through the nostalgic reflections of former Bengali Naxalites; the resurgence of ancestral conflicts in the spread of the Maoists in the hills of western Nepal; the disillusi