Awakening the Historian Within: My First Year at Ashoka University

Awakening the Historian Within: My First Year at Ashoka University

Ashaz Mohammed looks back on his first year at Ashoka University and…

Ashoka University announces the winners of the 2023 History Prizes

Ashoka University’s Ph.D. Student Shreya Kundu awarded the prestigious Charles Wallace Trust Fellowship

Charles Wallace India Trust awarded Shreya with a prestigious research fellowship; she…

The Department of History

Ashoka University seeks both to equip students with the Historian’s toolbox and…

Ashoka History Faculty Aparna Vaidik awarded £50,000 (about Rs.50 lacs) grant for research by The British Academy, UK

Aparna Vaidik is awarded a grant worth £50,000 (about Rs.50 lacs) for…

Webinar – Why Study History at Ashoka? | Register now!

Join us for the webinar on Tuesday, 22 December 2020 | 6:00…

Truth, Lies, and Secrets: A Brief History of Privacy | Beyond the Classroom Series

Join Computer Scientist Debayan Gupta as he takes us through an exciting…

Remembering Bapu: Gandhi vs Swaraj | Beyond the Classroom Series

Join us to hear history being retold and freshly investigated from the…

‘Why study love and laughter?’ – Beyond the Classroom

Meet historian and archaeologist, Prof. Nayanjot Lahiri, who will take us back…

Conscious Experience. Reformed Empiricism and Its Prospects

14-16 February 2020, Lecture Room II, Annexe Building India International Center New…

Understanding early modern South Asia through Mughal warfare

Ashoka faculty uses new lens to explore Mughal history in his book

History and Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences

Prof. Steven I. Wilkinson discussed the lack of agreed standards for the…

The Memory Museum 2.0: Whose history is it anyway?

The Department of History at Ashoka University actively nurtures engagement with the…

A Talk on The History of Chauvinism

Historian and author of acclaimed books, Ramachandra Guha speaks at Ashoka University…

Time Pieces: A Whistle-Stop Tour of Ancient India by Nayanjot Lahiri

‘There are many missing pieces in the jigsaw puzzle that is ancient…