Vision & Mission
● To abide by the values of the Indian Constitution as stated in the Preamble.
● To promote the values for which Raiganj University stands for.
● The Department is keen to evolve new pedagogical tools. In that process, the Department of History is using audio-visual materials. The Department is also promoting participatory method of learning, through organising students’ seminars, quiz competitions, group discussions, exhibitions, writing articles for magazines/journals, and prepare the reports based on the field studies, reviews of literatures etc.
● In view of connecting history with the contemporary world to enhance the historical consciousness among the students and other target groups and to promote escalated job opportunities, a new age syllabi have been formulated with inter-related themes. The local, national and global histories have, also, been incorporated in the syllabi.
● The Department is keen in developing interdisciplinary inquiry and knowledge with other departments of Raiganj University. The Faculty members of the Department take up different research areas. They are innovatively engaged in the research which employs new research methods with different approaches like gender history, environmentalism, local history, intellectual history, biographical history, subaltern history and history of the movements.
● The Department is planning to sign MoUs with Indian Universities/Institutions to establish cooperation in the areas of teaching, research and training. The Department also plans to publish a book of M.Phil./Ph.D. dissertations abstract. Against these backdrops, the Department envisions to provide holistic ideas to the students regarding the recent trends in history and scientific researches.
Mission(s) of the Department:
In keeping with the Motto of our University Sā vidya ya vimuktaye, which means education results in liberation, our Mission is to enrich the numerical graph of higher education amongst the youth of the region and abroad and to create sound research background, to create human resources, par excellence, with versatile personality and thereby to support all round regional progress and development.
● To promote cohesiveness by breaking down barriers based on sex, caste, religion etc.
● To promote inter-disciplinary teaching.
● To promote appreciation of culture from local to global.