The Department of History and Archaeology 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
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Published by Hachette India (24 December 2022) A History of India Through 75 Objects encourages the appreciation of the... read more
In November 2021, along with Dr. Mudit Trivedi, and Dr. Supriya Varma, Dr. Hemanth Kadambi co-edited a special issue of The... read more
On 10 December 2021, the Leiden Centre for Indian Ocean Studies brought together a number of foremost experts in epigraphy and Indian Ocean studies... read more
Dr. Anubhuti Maurya, Assistant Professor, Department of History, discussed Dr. Manan Ahmed Asif’s book, The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India... read more