Which of the following are the functions of Indian Council of Social Science…

Concept

A national research council supports a field by promoting research, developing research capacity, and enabling the institutions and channels through which research is carried out and shared.

Accordingly, grants, fellowships or scholarships, and support for research publications are enabling functions; actions that isolate disciplines or punish institutions require separate explicit authority.

Application

Apply this distinction to each statement:

• A proposes separating social sciences from natural sciences; this runs against interdisciplinary coordination rather than describing research support.

• B describes scholarships for social-science research, a direct research-capacity support mechanism.

• C describes financial support for institutional research journals, a channel for disseminating social-science scholarship.

• D describes promoting social-science research, the council’s central mandate.

• E describes periodic blacklisting of non-performing institutions, not a stated research-promotion or grant-support function.

Cross-check / Contrast

The positive functions form one coherent support chain: develop researchers through scholarships, support dissemination through journals, and promote research generally. The separation and blacklisting statements do not belong to that chain.

Result

Therefore, the required combination is B, C and D only.