Department of History

Department of History

About the Department

About the Department

From 2015, M.A. History was initiated as a part of the Department of South & Central Asian Studies, a catch-all department offering courses in different humanities and social sciences. On July 3, 2019, Department of History was established as a separate discipline in social sciences. Presently, the department offers PG and PhD programme in History. The History Department aims to make the students aware of the past and its legacies through teaching, research and extension activities in the context of regional, national and global spheres. 

Hitherto, alumni of M.A. History has gone on to pursue PhD at Aligarh Muslim University and State University of New York at Stony Brook. Yet others are working as school teachers with government and private schools, and cleared competitive exams. Students have cleared UGC-NET, CTET and their state-level counterparts. Students and research scholars of the department have been associated with a variety of research initiatives sponsored of INTACH (Indian National Trust for Architectural and Cultural Heritage), ICHR (Indian Council for Historical Research) and ICSSR (Indian Council for Social Science Research).

 

Vision:

The department aspires to work on ethno-history, oral traditions and memory. 

To map the archaeological sites of Punjab. 

 

Mission:

  • To archive documents related with political and socio-cultural movements of Punjab and other parts of India. 
  • To promote the studies of marginalized sections of South-west Punjab. 
  • To document the oral memory of partition of the Malwa region. 

 

Faculty

  1. Dr. Hareet Meena, Associate Professor & HOD
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  2. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, Associate Professor
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  3. Dr. Vikas Rathee, Assistant Professor
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  4. Dr. Ashwani Kumar, Assistant Professor
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  5. Dr. Rajni Sahota, Assistant Professor
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  6. Dr. Brijendra Kumar, Assistant Professor
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Academic Programmes

  • 2023-25
    • M.A History
    • Ph.D History
  • 2022-24
    • M.A History
    • Ph.D History

Syllabi

Research Thurst Area

Medieval Indian history; Ancient Indian history; History of Religions and Religious Communities; Mughal History; Kushan Dynasty; Social History of India – Caste communities; History of Ideas – Nationalism in India; 

 

Facilities

The Department runs the University Museum about which more details may be found in the links. The Museum received the bulk of its collections from Mrs. Savita Goyal of Barnala (a renowned collector of antique items awarded by Govts of Punjab and India). The Museum was established by Prof. Subhash Parihar. In the past, the charge of the Museum has also been with Prof. Vinay Kumar Rao, Dr. Sudheer Singh, and Dr. Vikas Rathee. Presently, the charge is with Dr. Ashwani Kumar

E-Content

http://nationalarchives.nic.in/

https://mkgandhi.org/

http://www.panjabdigilib.org/

http://rsadapp.rajasthan.gov.in/

www.jstor.org

https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/historical-collections

https://www.bl.uk/

https://archnet.org/

http://asiegov.gov.in/

Placement

  1. Gurpreet Singh, Master Cadre, Govt of Punjab
  2. Mohd. Raqib, School Lecturer, Govt of Jammu & Kashmir
  3. Donal Thomas, Teaching Assistant & Ph.D. candidate in History, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  4. Vilayat Ali, Ph.D. candidate in History, Aligarh Muslim University

 

Student Corner

The departmental students have always been part of university sports teams and cultural troupes, and have taken initiative in NSS and other such schemes. Sukhveer Singh has been instrumental in the formation and functioning of a library and study centre in Kot Fatta village (Distt. Bathinda).

Grants

All three faculty members are recipients of the Research Seed Money of the Central University of Punjab. In the past, their research has been sponsored by national and international agencies.  

Seminar/Symposia

LECTURES ORGANIZED after the FORMATION of DEPT. of HISTORY 

  • Shri Hariram Meena (Retd. IPS) One Day program under the aegis Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (AKAM) on "Contribution of Janjati Heroes in Freedom Struggle" @ 15 Nov, 2022. 
  • Dr. Byapati Sur (Assistant Professor), School of Liberal Arts & Humanities, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala for an invited lecture titled " Company Beyond Commerce: Tracing the Dutch East india Company as a Zamindar in Bihar and Bengal 1603-1825. @ 11 am, Friday, Oct 19,2022.
  • Dr. Balram Shukla (Associate Professor)
    Department of Sanskrit, University of Delhi
    Invited lecture on 11am, Friday, 06 May 2022

  • Padam Shri Milind Kamble
    on Dr. BR Ambedkar jayanti (13 April 2022)
    @13th  April 2022( 11:00am) Online Mode 

  • Prof. JS Sidhu (Guru Kashi University, Talwandi Saboo)
    on Martyrdom Day (23 March 2022)
    @ 23th  March 2022( 03:30pm) in Seminar Hall 
    YouTube link: https://youtu.be/JuqAlmdshpU

  • Dr. SK Chahal, Professor Deptt. of History, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra 
    on 'The Legacy and Contribution of Sant Ravidas ji
    @  16th February 2022 (12:30pm to 01:30pm) 
    Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/Hw2CQZwoYc4

 

 

  • Dr. Priyatosh Sharma, Associate Professor Deptt. of History, Panjab University, Chandigarh 
    on  Recent Trends in Medieval Indian History
    @ 26th November 2021 in Class room
  • Sajal Nag, Professor, Modern & Contemporary History, Assam University, Silchar

           SIKH COMMUNITY in NORTH-EAST INDIA 

           @11 am, Thursday, Aug 26, 2021, online mode 

           LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xONEUto8d2s 

 

  • De-industrialisation in Nineteenth-Century India: Myth or Reality?

          Speaker: Dr. Rachna Singh, Assistant Professor, 

           Hindu College, University of Delhi

           Monday, March 1, 2021, online mode 

 

  • Prof. Surinder Singh (Retd.), Department of History, Panjab University at 11 am on Wednesday, March 4, 2020 in the Seminar Hall. The lecture is titled The Making of Medieval Panjab: Politics, Society and Culture 

 

 

 2. LECTURES ORGANISED by HISTORY COMPONENT of DEPT of SCAS 

 

  • Ambedkar, Labour and Trade Unions in Bombay before 1947 

         Seminar Hall, Central University of Punjab 

         2.30 pm, Thursday, April 11, 2019

 

 

  • Sumeet Mhaskar Associate Professor, Government & Public Policy, Jindal Global University, Sonepat. (organised by Vikas Rathee)

         The Impact of World War II on the Society and Economy of India 

         Indivar Kamtekar 

         Professor, Centre for Historical Studies

         Jawaharlal Nehru University

         11am, Seminar Hall 

         Thursday, Jan 24, 2019

         Conflict and Conciliation: Gender and the Religious Imaginary in Piro’s Kafis

 

  • Anshu Malhotra

         Kundan Kaur Kapany Chair in Global and Sikh Studies

         University of California, Santa Barbara

          11am, Seminar Hall, 22/1/2019 

 

  • Harish Wankhede on 'Democracy and the Appropriation of Ambedkar' at 10.30 am on Tuesday, April 17, 2018. Dr. Harish S. Wankhede is Assistant Professor, Center for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. 

 

 

Alumni

The Department keeps in regular touch with its alumni through various means. So far, only one batch of MA History has graduated from the Dept. An alumni meet was organised on March 2, 2021.

 

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