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About the department : The Department of History was established in 1989, with two whole-time teachers and 80 students. It now has six faculty positions, 1 Professor, 1 Reader, and 4 Lecturers. At present, 16 Guest teachers assist in the teaching programme of the Department. Each class now has a capacity of 106 students. Admission is done strictly on the basis of merit. As a Post graduate department, it draws students from among Honours graduates of mainly affiliated colleges of the districts of Paschim and Purba Medinipur; the Department is thus able to attract the meritorious students of the area New inclusion from the emerging fields in curriculum : The tendency of the Department to follow the
directives of the University Grants Commission and to keep up with the
latest trends in teaching and research was brought out by the fact that
full papers on Historiography and Social History of Science and
Technology were included in the syllabus drawn up in 2001. The syllabus
has been revised once more this year, i.e. 2008; the format is now that
of the semester system. It includes, among others, a paper on
Environmental History and another on South-Western Bengal. The emphasis
is, as always in the past, on Social History and Local History. Each
time, experts on different fields, and from various universities of West
Bengal, were consulted to draw up the final syllabi. Syllabus upgradation :
The
Department upgrades and revises its syllabus at regular intervals. The
initial MA syllabus was updated in 2001 to incorporate the latest in the
discipline and allied fields. It has been revised once more this year,
i.e. in 2008; the format is now that of the semester system, instead of
the annual system.
Research Areas / Fields Regional/local history; History of childhood and children’s literature; History of Science; History of late Medieval Bengal
Running projects
The
Department is carrying out the project entitled “Communities and Local
History: A Study in the Processes of Community Formation in
South-Western Bengal (from mid-19th century to 1947)” with
financial assistance from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute for Asian
Studies, Kolkata. The Principal Investigator of the Project is Dr.
Ujjayan Bhattacharya.
a) 1997: “Fifty Years of Indian Independence” (State level).
Speakers: Prof. Hirendranath Chakraborty, Curator, Victoria Memorial
Hall, Calcutta; Prof. Basudeb Chattopadhyay and Prof. Arun Bandopadhyay,
Calcutta University.
b) 1998:
XV Annual Conference of the Paschim Banga Itihas Samsad
(State level; jointly with Samsad).
c) 1999:
Tarashankar Bandopadhyay Birth Centenary Commemoration
Seminar (National level; jointly with Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, and
English and Bengali Departments of Vidyasagar University)
d) 2002:
“The City and the Mofussil” (International level; Speakers
from Calcutta and Jadavpur Universities, Kolkata, and Chicago and Leiden
Universities)
e) 2003:
Workshop on new BA syllabus of Vidyasagar University (With
teachers from affiliated colleges)
e) 2005:
“New Directions in the Study of History” (State level;
Speakers from various universities of West Bengal, like Prof. Rajat
Kanta Ray, Prof. Basudeb Chattopadhyay, Prof. Arun Bandopadhyay, Dr.
Suparna Gooptu et al)
f) 2006: Lecture on “Communalism and Modern Indian History” delivered
by Prof. Bipan Chandra, Professor Emeritus, JNU, New Delhi (B. C.
Mukherjee Memorial Lecture)
g) 2007:
Lecture on “Bengal renaissance And Modern Bengali Culture”
delivered by Prof. Tapan Roychaudhuri, (B. C. Mukherjee Memorial
Lecture)
h) 2007:
“Revolt of 1857: Regional Perspectives” (National level;
funded by Indian Council for Historical Research, New Delhi)
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