Ritu Kohli

The present paper is an endeavour to define research as a scientific and systematic search for pertinent information for advancing knowledge in any branch of study and find answers to questions and solutions to problems and in the process determine the economic, social and political development of a nation. Secondly, it examines the main objectives of research to find out the truth, which is hidden, and which has not yet discovered. Thirdly, research being a fact-finding inquiry, the paper underscores certain characteristics of its own. Fourth, the paper categorizes research into natural and human sciences. And finally, the study deliberates in its presentation the typology of research studies used in the discipline of Political Science based on their intended aims and anticipated results.