The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), established in 1936 as the Sir Dorabji Tata Graduate School of Social Work in Mumbai, aimed to create human service professionals to address the issues of unemployment and poverty in the context of the Great Depression of the 1930s. It was renamed ‘Tata Institute of Social Sciences’ in 1944, and in 1964 the Government of India (GoI) declared TISS as ‘Deemed to be a University’ under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Act, 1956.