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
This project examines the fort of Korlai, a Portuguese outpost in North-Western Maharashtra, which was built in 1594 and occupied till 1740. The Portuguese first arrived... 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
Unique Courses
| HIS102 | HIS102 |
| HIS105 | |
| HIS104 | HIS104 |
| HIS201 | |
| HIS202 | |
| HIS208 |
An archaeology workshop on ceramic classification was organised by our faculty members, Jaya Menon and Hemanth Kadambi, in cooperation with fellow... read more
Dr Shrimoy Roy Chaudhury was invited to present a paper at the Jindal Global University Historians Symposium.
This workshop sought to use chronology as a frame to understand questions of pedagogy and the past. Frameworks of chronology are integral to the... read more
