Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad was established in 1980 as one in the network of Social Science Research Institutes, which Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) set up in association with the State Governments.

It becames a Constituent Institute of the University of Allahabad on July 14, 2005, when the University of Allahabad Act, 2005 came into force.

The Institute has a doctoral programme in social sciences and a MBA Rural Development Program. 

Vision & Mission:

The mission of the Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute is to create new knowledge in the field of social sciences.

The researchers confront the emerging challenges in the continuously changing society with new paradigms and concepts, developing critical approaches to studying social phenomenon, generating new ideas, collecting empirical evidence from the ground level and constructing a dialogical engagement with policy making and social agents.