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Department of History

Royal School of
Humanities & Social Sciences (RSHSS)

About Department

The Department of History is one of the premier departments of Royal Global University. It has eminent and scholarly faculty with global exposure. It is emerging as one of the leading centre of historical learning and research in the north-east India. Its objective is to initiate innovative research and world class curriculum design with industry-oriented pedagogy, to ground historical erudition in the shared national culture of compassion, social responsibility and sound ethical outlook and to enrich society by producing nationally and internationally acclaimed historians and historical works with acute transformative potential in the domain of social sciences. In its thrust to update its curriculum according to the mandate of New Education Policy of the GOl, it has included skill enhancement courses like Museology, Archeology, Heritage management, Basic Writing Skills, Value-Added Courses as well as mandatory project work in it is curriculum. It has MoU with leading academic and research institutions which provide internships to our students for quick employability.

The Department often organizes short trips to historical/archeological sites, traditional heritage sites, traditional industrial and handicraft sites for firsthand experience of students. Within a short span of its existence, it has already produced NET and JRF qualified students, officers in Indian Banking Service as well as faculty in reputed universities. Some of our students have received admission in reputed universities abroad for higher studies. The department has started an Outreach programme with the motto 'Popularizing History, Supplementing Syllabus: Using alternative Pedagogy to start society-academia interface. To facilitate research, and writing skills of our students the Department has established History Society - Vrittaanta which provide a platform to all students and research scholars of the Department for popularizing the discipline, engage in debate and discussion in historical themes amongst students and members of the larger society. It has also the credit of publishing the first Departmental student e-research magazine of the University named Anveshan: A Voyage into the Unexplored Past. The Department and its faculty strive to produce distinguished students who would be leading historical research in the region.

Vision and Mission of the Department

Courses Offered

MA History
BA History | Honours / Honours with Research

Courses Structure and Syllabus


Events

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20-09-2024 | Dr. Sanjeev Chopra (Former Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Author and Historian) | Invited Lecture: “We the people of the states of Bharat”.
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15-07-2024 | Dr. Sangeeta Gogoi (Director In-Charge, Directorate of Historical and Antiquarian Studies, Assam) | MoU Signing.
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27-05-2024 | Dr. Nachiket Chanchani (Associate Professor in History of the Art Department) | Invited talk on ‘Decoding India's Temples and the Challenges of Reconstructing Them’.
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20-05-2024 | Ms. Vandana Manchanda (Director, Architectural Heritage Division and Head of Heritage Crafts and Community Division, INTACH) | Invited lecture on ‘Craft Revival and its socio-economic impact on Communities’.
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17-03-2024 | Shri SK Bose (Numismatist) | Invited lecture on ‘Numismatic Heritage of Assam and its Emerging Trend in Study’.
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04-05-2023 | Prof. Apurba Baruah (Professor, NEHU) | FDP Resource Person.
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04-05-2023 | Prof. Monorama Sharma (Professor, NEHU) | FDP Resource Person.
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03-05-2023 | Prof. Chandan Kumar Sharma (Professor, Tezpur University) | FDP Resource Person.
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03-05-2023 | Dr. Manjil Hazarika (Assistant Professor, Cotton University) | FDP Resource Person.
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Department of History

Royal School of Humanities & Social Sciences (RSHSS)

About Department

The Department of History is one of the premier departments of Royal Global University. It has eminent and scholarly faculty with global exposure. It is emerging as one of the leading centre of historical learning and research in the north-east India. Its objective is to initiate innovative research and world class curriculum design with industry-oriented pedagogy, to ground historical erudition in the shared national culture of compassion, social responsibility and sound ethical outlook and to enrich society by producing nationally and internationally acclaimed historians and historical works with acute transformative potential in the domain of social sciences. In its thrust to update its curriculum according to the mandate of New Education Policy of the GOl, it has included skill enhancement courses like Museology, Archeology, Heritage management, Basic Writing Skills, Value-Added Courses as well as mandatory project work in it is curriculum. It has MoU with leading academic and research institutions which provide internships to our students for quick employability.

The Department often organizes short trips to historical/archeological sites, traditional heritage sites, traditional industrial and handicraft sites for firsthand experience of students. Within a short span of its existence, it has already produced NET and JRF qualified students, officers in Indian Banking Service as well as faculty in reputed universities. Some of our students have received admission in reputed universities abroad for higher studies. The department has started an Outreach programme with the motto 'Popularizing History, Supplementing Syllabus: Using alternative Pedagogy to start society-academia interface. To facilitate research, and writing skills of our students the Department has established History Society - Vrittaanta which provide a platform to all students and research scholars of the Department for popularizing the discipline, engage in debate and discussion in historical themes amongst students and members of the larger society. It has also the credit of publishing the first Departmental student e-research magazine of the University named Anveshan: A Voyage into the Unexplored Past. The Department and its faculty strive to produce distinguished students who would be leading historical research in the region.

Vision & Mission of the Department

Courses Offered

BA History | Honours / Honours with Research

Courses Structure and Syllabus

Events

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20-09-2024 | Dr. Sanjeev Chopra (Former Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Author and Historian) | Invited Lecture: “We the people of the states of Bharat”.
Read More ...
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15-07-2024 | Dr. Sangeeta Gogoi (Director In-Charge, Directorate of Historical and Antiquarian Studies, Assam) | MoU Signing.
Read More ...
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27-05-2024 | Dr. Nachiket Chanchani (Associate Professor in History of the Art Department) | Invited talk on ‘Decoding India's Temples and the Challenges of Reconstructing Them’.
Read More ...
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20-05-2024 | Ms. Vandana Manchanda (Director, Architectural Heritage Division and Head of Heritage Crafts and Community Division, INTACH) | Invited lecture on ‘Craft Revival and its socio-economic impact on Communities’.
Read More ...
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17-03-2024 | Shri SK Bose (Numismatist) | Invited lecture on ‘Numismatic Heritage of Assam and its Emerging Trend in Study’.
Read More ...
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04-05-2023 | Prof. Apurba Baruah (Professor, NEHU) | FDP Resource Person.
Read More ...
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04-05-2023 | Prof. Monorama Sharma (Professor, NEHU) | FDP Resource Person.
Read More ...
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03-05-2023 | Prof. Chandan Kumar Sharma (Professor, Tezpur University) | FDP Resource Person.
Read More ...
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03-05-2023 | Dr. Manjil Hazarika (Assistant Professor, Cotton University) | FDP Resource Person.
Read More ...

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