The Department of History, Shiv Nadar University, invites applications to its PhD programme (2020-21) in both History and Archaeology.... read more
The Department of History at Shiv Nadar University offers a unique and creative intertwining of history and archaeology as two disciplinary approaches to the past.
We seek to impart rigorous training in the methods and theoretical approaches in both history and archaeology from the undergraduate level and encourage students to think and write creatively. We feel the real challenge in teaching archaeology and history is to introduce students to the past in its totality, since... read more
The Hill Palace museum, located in Thrippunithura, Cochin, acts as an archaeological museum, and the Centre for Heritage Studies. Its construction began in the 1850s, with... read more
The research for this project shall establish a formal archive of ‘great many human-interest stories’ of Sikkim in near contemporary times. Sikkim is an important... read more
The project responds to the increasing attention within academic archaeology towards the ‘heritage sector’ and shall entail interrogating the manner in which heritage is... read more
The question of mob identity has been a topic of research among academicians for quite some time, and this paper too would like to understand similar trajectories of that... read more
Unique Courses
| HIS102 | HIS102 |
| HIS105 | |
| HIS104 | HIS104 |
| HIS201 | |
| HIS202 | |
| HIS208 |
Our faculty member, Dr. Divya Kannan, organised an international conference on Childhood, Youth, and Identity in South Asia, bringing together... read more
‘Nineveh’ in Bombay: Local Histories and Transnational Antiquities The lecture builds upon little known histories of the exhibitions of the... read more
In this paper, I treat pastoralism as an integral component of the socio-economic lifeways of communities. Evidence from architecture, iconography... read more
Dr Shrimoy Roy Chaudhury was invited to present a paper at the Jindal Global University Historians Symposium.