Department of History: A Profile

A brief history of the Department of History: The Department of History was started at the very inception of the college i.e. in 1944. However it was upgraded to an Honours teaching department in the early 1980s. Some excellent teachers served the department from the very beginning. Mention may be made to Sri Hemanta Mukhopadhyay, Rabi Das, Prabhas Lahiri,   Abyay Dasgupta, Sunil Chaudhury and Baidyanath Chakrabort.

Courses offered: The department offer Three Years B.A Honours and General course in History under the University of Burdwan.

Course Outline: History Honours

 

Part I

Paper I: History of India with special reference to Bengal (Earliest times to 1206 AD).

Paper II: History of India with special reference to Bengal (1206 AD -1757 AD)

 

Part II

Paper III: History of Medieval Europe (800-1250AD)/ Greek History &Civilisation (510-356 BC)

Paper IV: Transformation of Europe (15th- 17th centuries)

 

Part III

Paper V: History of India with special reference to Bengal (1757-1964 AD)

Paper VI: History of Europe (1789-1945 AD)

Paper VII: The Making of the Contemporary World

Paper VIII: History of East Asia since 1839

Course Outline: History General

Part I

Paper I: History of India up to 1526 AD

Part II

Paper II: History of India, 1526-1919

Paper III: History of Europe, 1789-1945

Part III

Paper IV: History of India and the World, 1919-1964

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Faculty Members:

I.Dr. Tridib Santapa Kundu

II.Mrs.Keya Roy

III.Dr. Sudip Chakraborty

IV. Mr.Subhas Sidhartha

Students: The students are the most precious possession of the department. They have a very good track record in academic activities as well as in every aspects of the campus life.

Infrastructure: The department is situated at the first floor of the Humanities Building. The  greatest positional advantage of the department is its close proximity to the Central Library. It has a separate lecture room and a seminar library of its own. The seminar library has a small but very useful collection. It has also a collection of e-books and e-journals which the students and teachers can use according to their requirements. The department is fully equipped with computers and other accessories and connected to the web through broadband.

Future Plan: We have a plan of extending modern facilities of teaching-learning and research to both the students and teachers associated with the department. The students should be exposed to the present state of the world of learning through internet and other agencies in the era of globalization. They have to be trained up in the art of thinking originally. We have a plan of offering some career oriented training related to history (IAS, WBCS, SSC, and the like) to the students of the department so that they can use their three years study of history in a more fruitful manner. The students of history could perform extremely well in the administrative services other than teaching and research professions and we have to explore it properly. We have also a plan to undertake some research projects in the department. We also have a dream to make it a PG department.

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Email: histbbc@gmail.com