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 |
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HIS104 | HIS104 |
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Dr Sudeshna Guha, Associate Professor, Department of History organised and moderated a series of webinars on Heritage and History. This is the first... read more
In the second webinar of the Heritage and History series, Dr Sudeshna Guha was in conversation with Dr Swapna Liddle, Convenor, Delhi Chapter,... read more
In the final part of the webinar series on Heritage and History, Feisal Alkazi, noted theatre artist, writer, and heritage activist spoke on "... read more
This talk will give an overview of recent research in the archaeology and histories of South India. It will also explore the abiding but also... read more