The Department of History offers a three-year undergraduate Major in History and two Interdisciplinary Majors in the subject, History-International Relations and History-Economics. It also offers a one-year postgraduate degree, Ashoka Scholars’ Programme, and a Ph.D. programme with a maximum tenure of six years.
The Undergraduate Programme in History at Ashoka University seeks to equip students with the historian’s toolbox and trains them…
Ashoka University offers a year-long Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Studies and Research (DipASR) to students who have completed…
The Department of History runs a PhD Programme under the guidelines of Ashoka University and the rules and…
The Faculty in the Department of History combines a passion for innovative teaching with cutting-edge research. It has an expertise in a wide range of specializations: the history of ancient and early medieval India, with a special focus on archaeology, heritage, society, politics, religion, texts, and ideas; the history of medieval and early modern India with an emphasis on states, empires, warfare, and environment; the history of modern India and the Indian Ocean with a focus on political violence, space, environment, and intellectual history; contemporary history and international history of modern South Asia; and global history.
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