Sanjoy Roy - Social Work Education: Indigenous Perspectives

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• ACA American Counselling Association
• AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
• ALIMCO Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India
• BAC British Association for Counselling
• BBB Build Back Better
• BPRD Bureau of Police Research and Development
• CASW The Canadian Association of Social Workers
• CB Civil Defense
• CBRN Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear
• CHC Community Health Centers
• CISM Crisis Incident Stress Management
• CMS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
• CNS Central nervous system
• DISE District Information System for Education
• DM Disaster management
• DRC Drug De-addiction and Rehabilitation Centres
• DRR Disaster risk reduction
• GER Gross enrolment ratio
• GOI Government of India
• HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus
• HVCR Hazard, Vulnerability, Category and Risk
• IASC Inter-agency Standing Committee
• IASSW International Association of Schools of Social Work
• ICDS Integrated Child Development Services
• IDNDR International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
• IFSW International Federation of Social Workers
• IGNOAPS Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme
• IIPA Indian Institute for Public Administration
• IPOP Integrated Programme for Older Persons
• LIC Life Insurance Corporation
• MBA Master of Business Administration
• MDG Millennium Development Goals
• MHFA Mental Health First Aid
• MoSPI Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
• NAPCC National Action Plan on Climate Change
• NASW National Association of Social Workers
• NCRB National Crime Records Bureau
• NDMA National Disaster Management Authority
• NDPS Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances
• NDRF National Disaster Response Force
• NFHS National Family Health Survey
• NGO Non-governmental organization
• NHS National Health Service
• NNPC Neighborhood Network in Palliative Care
• NOVA National Organization for Victim Assistance
• NPDM National Policy on Disaster Management
• NPDRR National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
• NPHCE National Programme for Health Care of the Elderly
• NPOP National Policy on Older Persons
• OD Organization development
• PAR Participatory action research
• PDR People's Democratic Republic
• PFA Psychological First Aid
• PHC Primary health centers
• PIP Programme Implementation Plans
• PMVVY Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana
• SC Sub-centers
• SDG Sustainable development goals
• SDMA Sate Disaster Management Authority
• SDTT Sir Dorabji Tata Trust
• SFA Stress First Aid
• SRS Sample Registration System
• TISS Tata Institute of Social Sciences
• U5MR Under-5 Mortality Rate
• UN United Nation
• UNCRC United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
• UNDP United Nations Development Programme
• UNICEF United Nation Children's Fund
• UNIFEM The United Nations Development Fund for Women
• UTs Union territories
• WHO World Health Organization

India has an impressive cultural history of care for the troubled that extends long before the existence of formal social work education (Chatterjee, 2010). Raja Ram Mohan Roy, well known within India, but unfortunately unrecognized within the Western world, made profound strives towards advocacy for humanity and educational resources. He instigated a reform movement to engage Indians to embrace values that stressed kindness and generosity to those who are less fortunate. Internationally revered, Mahatma Gandhi was the fountainhead who demonstrated and guided Hindu culture to what, today, embodies social work values. In fact, Gandhi has had the single most profound impact on the articulation of contemporary social work values and ethics of any single person in world history. Clearly, India has a solid history of advocacy for humanity followed by efforts to systematize such humanitarian concerns within the academic arena. For example, the internationally respected