The Department of Arabic is one of the oldest departments in the University dating back to 1922, the year of the inception of the University of Delhi. However, the department was not an independent till the late sixties when it got an independent entity. At first, the classes used to be held at St. Stephen College, a constituent college of the University of Delhi. To begin with, the renowned erudite personalities such as Shamsul Ulama Maulana Abdur Rahman and Maulana Saeed Ahmad Akberabadi rendered their services for the department. In the late fifties the department of Arabic with its sister departments­­­­- the Department of Persian and the Department of Urdu- was shifted to the well-known Arts Faculty Building.

The Department of Arabic thus passed through three phases. At first it was working under the umbrella of Department of Arabic, Persian and Urdu. At the second stage the Department of Urdu became independent and the Department of Arabic and Persian remained combined. Afterwards the Department of Arabic got independent in the late sixties.

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The Department of Buddhist Studies was established in 1957 as follow up to the action initiated by the Government of India on the occasion of the celebration of 2500 years of Buddhism on 24 May 1956. This department, the first of its kind in India, was established with the primary objective of conducting research at the advanced level in various subjects related to Buddhist Studies. As part of this initiative, a Chair of Buddhist Studies was created. Professor P.V. Bapat, a scholar of international repute, was the first scholar to occupy this chair. Professor Bapat initially began his work of organizing the Department of Buddhist Studies under the overall supervision of the Department of Philosophy which was headed by Professor N.V. Banerjee at that time. 

For the first few years, the Department had a staff strength of one professor, two research fellows, one stenographer, and an office attendant. Under Professor Bapat, University Grants Commission was approached for initiating action to provide an independent identity to the Department with its own library and more academic as well as non-academic staff. As a result of these efforts, the University Grants Commission provided one reader, three lecturers, two part-time lecturers and, one research assistant were sanctioned. However, the Department continued to function as part of the Department of Philosophy till 1962 when it began to function independently as a full-fledge department of the University of Delhi.

The Department began to admit full-time research scholars from the year 1962 onwards for the degrees of Ph.D. M.Litt. Later, post-graduate Certificate and Diploma courses each of one-year duration in Pali language and Literature were introduced in the years 1967 and 1968 respectively. Likewise post-graduate Certificate and Diploma courses in Tibetan Language and Literature each of one year duration were introduced in 1968 and 1969 respectively. The Department began to bring out its own annual research Journal Buddhist Studies in 1974. The year 1979 was a landmark when a two-year full-time M.A course in Buddhist Studies was introduced. In 1981, M.Litt. was replaced by M.Phil. course. The Department received the status of Department of Special Assistance (DSA) in 1989 from the University Grants Commission. Under this scheme, various facilities in the department were further expanded and now the department hopes to become Centre of Advanced Study at the end of third phase of the DSA Programme. Under the Assistance for Strengthening of Infrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences (ASIHSS) scheme of the University Grants Commission awarded in the year 2006, the Department has been able to acquire sufficient technical and infrastructural facilities to be able to function as a competitive academic institution striving for excellence. 

Apart from within India, students of as many 37 different nationalities have studied and/or done research at the Department of Buddhist Studies. A large number of the alumni of this Department hold positions of eminence in different parts of the world. The Department takes pride in having internationally known academic staff.

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The Department of Linguistics was started in 1963 with Dr. Chandrasekhar as its head. Only a diploma course in Linguistics was offered in the beginning. The Master’s and Doctoral programmes were later introduced in 1966 when the noted Indian linguist Professor P.B. Pandit joined the Department. Dr. R.N. Srivastava joined the Department as a Professor in 1976 and subsequently an advanced diploma course in Applied Linguistics, and the M.Phil. programme, in place of the earlier M.Litt. programme were introduced in 1978 and 1979, respectively.

Recognizing its strength in its teaching programmes as well as in research, particularly in the areas of theoretical linguistics and applied linguistics, the Department has been accorded the status of Centre for Advanced Studies in Linguistics by the University Grants Commission w.e.f. 2010-11. The department has been fortunate in attracting linguists trained in excellent academic institutions located in India and abroad. The significant number of international scholars from prestigious academic institutions seeking academic affiliation with the Department and the number of students admitted to the Department from various countries, indicate the international academic recognition that the department enjoys. The fact that a number of students of the Department have been selected by premier Universities in the US and Europe in the last few years for pursuing doctoral research further speaks of the academic reputation of the Department.

A major feature of our Linguistics Programme is that unlike most other linguistics departments elsewhere in the country it offers teaching and research in a variety of diverse areas, representing both theoretical and empirical orientations in equal measure; the department has maintained this balance over time. The other strength of the departments is its work on a variety of languages, particularly Tibeto-Burman and Indo-Aryan languages, and to some extent on Dravidian and Munda languages. The Department attracts students from diverse linguistic backgrounds. The constant supply of students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds from across the country has ensured continuation of research on various language families of India and abroad.

All major areas of Linguistics, like Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Historical Linguistics, etc. are dealt with efficiently at levels of the programme in terms of teaching and research.

The Department has had the privilege of having Professors like (Late) Prem Singh, (Late) A.K. Sinha, K.V.Subbarao, R.K. Agnihotri, Ravinder Gargesh, R.C. Sharma, Tista Bagchi, who superannuated from the Department after distinguished service. Other eminent Indian linguists who have taught at the Department include Prof. B.G. Mishra (ex-Director of the Central Institute of Hindi, Agra), Prof. C.J. Daswani, and Prof. C. Ramarao. In addition, many linguists of international repute have over the years been associated with the Department in various capacities. These include:
Professors Gordon Fairbanks, Robert B. Lees, Gerald Kelly, Jame D McCawley, Jean Aitchison, Charles Kisseberth, Frankin C. Southworth, Richard Mckee, Yamuna Kachru, George Lakoff, Peter Trudgill, Alice Davison, Peter Hook, Hans Hock, J.D. Singh, H.S. Ananthanarayana, Rajendra Singh, Kashi Wali, K.S. Yadurajan, J.P.S. Oberoi, Andre Beteille, Sisir Kumar Das, B. Jernudd, J. Neustupny, Peter Austin, Colin P. Masia, Norman H. Zide, Tor A. Afarli, and Ljudmila Khoklova. The Department has also had the privilege of inviting eminent scholars such as Noam Chomsky, M.A.K. Halliday, John Gumperz, Andre Martinet, David Abercormbie, George Cardona, Ashok Kelkar, Eric Hamp, Peter Ladefoged, Howard Lasnik, Rajesh Bhat, Tor. A. Afarli, G.Nickel, R.M.W. Dixon, R. Posner, Braj B. Kachru, Y. Kachru and others. The Department also had the honour of organizing the golden jubilee celebrations of the Linguistics Society of India and the Decennial celebrations of the Dravidian Linguistics Association in addition to several summer institutes, seminars and conferences.

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The Department of Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies was established in the year 1961.  It runs Master Programmes in Bengali, Comparative Indian Literature and Tamil, and Certificate – Diploma – Advanced Diploma courses in 11 Indian Languages. The research programme in the field of Comparative Indian Literature, Folklore and Indian Languages and Literature, initiated by the Department, have drawn the attention of scholars from India and abroad. The Department has produced a good number of scholars in these fields during these years. The Master programme in Comparative Indian Literature has also come to limelight for its unique design and its relevance in the multi-lingual and multi-cultural situation of India, where a wide variety of literatures are produced in different languages.

Department has also undertaken various initiatives under the ongoing UGC DRS assistance. Under this scheme, the thrust areas are: Comparative Indian Literature, Translation Studies and Indian Folklore and Tribal lore.  A series of National level seminars on these thrust areas have been organized during these years and few volumes are also to be published soon.

The Department celebrated its Golden Jubilee in the year 2010-11.

Located in the heart of the main Humanities Block of the Arts Faculty, North Campus, facing an inner quadrangle garden, the Department of Philosophy is one of the oldest in the University of Delhi. This building constructed in the early part of the twentieth century is well known for its red brick colonial structure. The activities of the Department are also carried on in the South Campus of the University of Delhi. The South Campus Philosophy Department rooms too have the pleasant atmosphere of being situated in a modern architectural complex in South Delhi, interspaced with beautiful gardens. Both campuses are well connected with public transport.

This Department began as a combined Department of Philosophy and Psychology in the year 1953. The Department of Psychology became independent in 1962. Since then the Department of Philosophy is an Autonomous Department.

Various distinguished scholars who have either taught or been associated with the Department of Philsophy, Delhi University include N.V. Banerjee, S.S Barlingay, R. C. Pandeya, Margaret Chatterjee, S.K. Saxena, Ram Chandra Gandhi and Mrinal Miri. A large number of eminent philosophers from India and abroad have lectured in the Department. Philosophers from abroad include Donald Davidson, Willard Quine, Peter Strawson, Akeel Bilgrami, George Henrik von Wright, Karl Potter, Anil Gupta, Martha Nussbaum, Richard Sorabjee, Elliot Sober, Hajime Nakamura, Arvind Sharma, Anthony Parel, among many others. The Department has a prestigious programme of teaching and research at the level of M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D degrees respectively, covering a diversity of areas in Philosophy: Classics of Western Philosophy, Classical Indian Philosophy, Logic, Ethics, Theory of Knowledge, Philosophy of Language, Contemporary Analytic Philosophy, Indian Philosophy of Language, Phenomenology, Existentialism, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Religion and Social & Political Philosophy, among others.

The members of the Faculty of the Department have had an ongoing record of participating in seminars and conferences in India and abroad. The Department draws students for all its programmes from different parts of India and abroad. These include students visiting under the exchange programme signed with University of California, University of Ottawa and Carleton University. 

All members of the Faculty are actively engaged in research, which has resulted in the publication of a large number of books, reports, and articles in Philosophy in Indian and International journals and anthologies. The Department has also undertaken several research projects during the last four decades. Recently, it organized a twenty-one days Refresher Course in “Logic and Language”; and an International seminar on “I, We and the Other: Asymmetries of Moral Evaluation” 
The Department has a large library of its own catering to the needs of the Masters and Research students, and research interests of the faculty members. There is a spacious reading room and seminar hall. Facilities like computers, printing and internet connections have been provided in the seminar room cum library. Special equipments are available in the Department for viewing of films, power point projections etc.

The Department regularly holds its special lectures, seminars and discussion groups in the Library cum Seminar room.

Psychology at the Master’s level was introduced in Delhi University in 1957 under the Department of Philosophy and Psychology. The Department of Psychology as an independent department was established in 1964 under the headship of Late Prof. H.C. Ganguli.

The Department has two units, one at the North Campus and the other at the South Campus  established in 1981. At the North Campus the courses offered are M.A. Psychology and Ph.D while at South Campus the course offered is M.A. in Applied Psychology.

The University of Delhi, in order to cope with the ever-expanding student population, evolved a concept of multi-campus system during the early seventies, resulting in the establishment of South Campus in 1973. One of the objectives for its establishment has been to avoid replication of the existing course and provide necessary diversity in the programmes offered by the University at both the campuses.

Keeping this in view, a number of new inter-disciplinary and applied science courses were started at the South Campus and the Psychology Department started the M.A. Applied Psychology Course at the South Campus. In its endeavour to widen the horizons of the Social Sciences, Applied Psychology Course was designed to train the professional psychologists to serve in hospitals, organizations and counseling centers as well as the advertising and marketing research agencies.

In recognition of its achievements in teaching and research, the University Grants Commission (UGC) identified this Department as Department of Special Assistance (DSA) in 1989. The two thrust areas identified are Cognitive Psychology and Applied Social Psychology. Two phases of the DSA Programme (10 Years) have been completed. Recently in 2015 UGC has recommended the Department for SAP (Special Assistance Programme). Department of Psychology was awarded “Second” position in the event “Awards for good practice” during the Antardhwani-2013 organized by the University of Delhi, Delhi.

The Department has a total strength of 13 teaching faculty out of which currently there are 5 Professors, 3 Associate Professors and 5 Assistant Professors. This includes 1 Professor, 2 Associate Professors in the Applied Psychology Unit at the South Delhi Campus. The teaching and research programme is supported by the technical staff at different levels. Apart from the Student Laboratory, meant for the practicum work for the students at the Master’s level, we have a few research labs, equipped with necessary amenities. The Seminar Room is equipped with the State-of-the-Art facilities. Presently the best and latest technology gadgets have been procured and set up to enhance the teaching and research activities. One of the strength of the teaching programme is to establish interface with Industries and Organizations working in varied domains as hospitals, NGOs, Corporate Sectors etc. The M.A. Psychology and Applied Psychology Courses include the latest trends in Psychology, with emphasis on practical training and field work.  The courses lay special emphasis on the acquisition of knowledge and skills through theoretical understanding and its practical implications. The Department has already initiated the process of revising all the courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. In addition to lecturing as the primary mode of instruction, teaching is also interactive with due emphasis on seminar, presentations and discussions and also experiential exercises and peer mentoring.

The Departmental teaching, research and field training are centered around contemporary issues        as stress and health, ageing, drug abuse, community mental health, disability, neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation, etc. A large number of our Master’s and Ph.D students after completing their degrees are employed by different organizations/hospitals dealing with these issues.

From time to time, the Department organizes Conferences, Seminars, Refresher Course, Workshops, etc. for the benefit of faculty and students. It has hosted the Indian Science Congress Sessions thrice as well as an International Conference and various National Level Conferences. The Department has organized conferences on Cognitive Psychology, Quality of Life, Human Resource Development. Culture and Psychology, Health Psychology, Affect, Identity and Discourse, Puzzles of Perception and on Indian Psychology. In addition, many research projects have also been undertaken. The department has signed a MOU with San Diego State University which involves collaboration in  teaching and research.

SALIENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE FACULTY

The faculty of the Department have undertaken projects in the areas of mental retardation, dyslexia, examination anxiety, hypertension, epilepsy, drug abuse, cognition in disabled children, belief systems, ageing, organizational processes personality assessment etc. sponsored by NCERT, ICSSR, ICMR, UGC, DRDO and other funding agencies. They are actively involved in academic interactions at national and international seminars and conferences. Some notable accomplishments of the faculty include the following: Late Prof. H.C. Ganguli was nominated as FNA. He acted as President of Indian Psychological Association and received Sandoz award for work on mental health of workers, and was the recipient of the best book awarded by IMA. Prof A.K. Sen and Late Prof. (Mrs.) A. Sen were elected as President of the Psychology and Educational Sciences sections of ISCA. Prof. A.K.Sen, Prof K.D. Broota. Prof. Girishwar Misra, Prof. Ashum Gupta and Prof. M. Ittyerah and Prof. Nandita Babu have been awarded Fulbright Fellowship on different occasions for research and teaching at various U.S. Universities including University of Alabani, University of California at Berkely, Wisconsin University, Michigan University at Ann Arbor, and Yale University and San Diego State University.

Late Prof. G.C. Gupta was a fellow of NIAS, The Hague, The Netherlands, IIAS, Shimla and CIIL at Mysore. Prof. A.K. Sen was a visiting scholar at the University of California Berkeley, National Lecturer of UGC, and a visiting faculty at the University of Bergen, Norway. Prof. K.D. Broota was recipient of Ford Foundation Fellowship for Post Doctoral work at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Prof. (Mrs.) V.Veraraghavan was the President of Behavioural Medicine. Prof. M. Ittyerah has been an invited member of the New York Academy of Sciences and has been awarded the Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship by the University of Oxford. She was also awarded an Indo-French Research Project by INSERM, France. Prof. Aruna Broota has been awarded best educationist of  the year award by Raja Ram Mohan Rai Foundation. She has also been awarded an International Award “Global Indian” San Fransico, USA and received lifetime achievement award from the Inderaprastha Educational Society. She has also been given a Distinction Award for combining Yoga Abhyas with Cognitive Behaviour Therapy by the Vishva Bharti Yoga Sansthan. Prof. Paramjeet K. Dhillon received a W.H.O. fellowship for research in Applied Social Psychology at the University of Exeter, U.K. She was also awarded Higher Education and Development Award by International Association of Educators for World Peace. Prof. Ashum Gupta received Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship, UGC Research Associateship at NIMHANS, Banglore. Indian National Science Academy award as Research Scientist, LC.M.R. fellowship as Trainer in Community Mental Health, NIMHANS, Banglore and British Psychological Society Award. Dr. Honey Oberoi Vahali was awarded the M.V. Govindaswamy award for Clinical Psychology and the Junior Nehru Memorial fellowship.

Prof. G. Misra has received Radhakrishanan Award, Dr. Hari Singh Gaur Award, G.B. Pant Award, and Human Rights Commission Award for distinguished contributions to social science research. Prof. Anand Prakash received young scientist Award of Indian Science Congress, UGC’s Career Award. Prof. Bhardwaj has been honored by National Institute of Productivity Management for life-time contribution to Organizational Behaviour.

Prof. N.K.Chadha was a Visiting Professor at University of Virginia, USA and Faculty of Health Studies, Auckland, University of Technology, New Zealand. Prof. N.K.Chadha was awarded DAAD fellowship at Dortumund University, Germany, INSADFG award at University of Heideberg, Germany and UGC-MSH award by French Government on Social Gerontology. Prof. N.K.Chadha has been invited by UNESCO to deliver status paper on the Intergenerational Issues for the developing world at University of Keele, U.S.A. He has been invited to be the member of Board of Governors, University Pittsberg, USA for intergenerational issues. Further Prof. Chadha was selected for the third time for the “Indo-French exchange program for Social Scientists” to visit France for one month jointly by the UGC, India and MSH, France. Prof. Nandita Babu was Visiting Professor at Department of Child Development, San Diego State University. 

The Department of Punjabi was culled out of Department of Modern Indian Languages (now known as Department of M.I.L.& Literary Studies) in 1985, with a faculty that has included, world renowned scholars like Prof. Harbhajan Singh, Prof. Attar Singh, Prof. Tarlok Singh Kanwar, Prof. Atamjit Singh, Prof.S S Noor. The department prides itself for having produced some of the finest alumni who have gone on to become reputed academicians in various universities in India and Abroad.

With a remarkable legacy of being the nerve centre for Delhi School of Punjabi Criticism, the department has kept up with the changing times by hosting national and international conferences and seminars, memorial lectures, Diaspora series annually. The platform provided by the department for live wire interactions among thinkers, writers and teachers on one hand, and between the intellectuals and the students on the other hand, has ensured that the department remains at the centre of Punjabi literature and culture’s dynamic transformation through the decades.

The Department of Punjabi has also ensured to keep its dialogue with the college teachers by ensuring regular workshops, promoting Co-operative and Guest teaching under the faculty improvement scheme and by taking keen interest in promoting Punjabi language at the Under-graduate level. The department offers admissions to Ph.D., M.Phil., M.A., Certificate and Diploma Courses in Punjabi.
The Department’s faculty has been honoured with some of the highest civilian honours/Awards such as Padma Shri for Prof. Attar Singh, Kabir and Saraswati Samman for Prof. Harbhajan Singh, Sahitya Akademi Award for Prof S.S. Noor, Majlis-e-Bulleh Shah International Award from Pakistan for Prof. Kuljit Shellie, (former Dean, Faculty of Arts) and Antar Rashtri Sahitkar/Kalakar Award (2002) from International Association of Punjabi Authors and Artists Inc. Canada and Modern Literary Scholar Award (2002) by Punjabi Academy, Wolverhampton, U.K. for Dr. Manjit Singh. Almost all the present faculty members (mentioned separately) have been honoured with other local and state level Awards for their contributions to Punjabi Literature.

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The history of the Department of Sanskrit, DU begins with the history of the University itself. The Department came into existence in 1922 when the University had come into existence. During the first two years of its commencement, the Department ran without postgraduate students. It was only in 1924 that the Department had one student in its M.A. program. Following the practice of the time Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Lakshidhar Kalla, the senior most of the teachers among the constituent colleges of the University occupied the position of Teacher-in-charge of the Department. As the Department had no faculty members of its own officially recognized some of the senior teachers from the colleges as Readers.

Pandit Lakshmi Dhar Shastri Kalla, the first in-charge of the Department belonged to St. Stephen’s College. Those days the Postgraduate classes of the subject of Sanskrit were held at St. Stephen’s College. Pandit Kalla pioneered the research programs in the Department of Sanskrit. He had come to the department with an illustrious background to his credit. After completing an archeological apprenticeship under Sir John Marshal, he had joined St. Stephen’s College as a lecturer in October 1916. He was an elected member of the Royal Asiatic Society. Apart from being well-versed in several Indian languages, he had the knowledge of Persian, Arabic, Greek, Latin, German, French, Russian and English. His books ‘The Birthplace of Kalidasa’ and ‘The Homeland of Aryans’ got high accreditations from the scholars across the globe. It goes without saying that his contributions in building the Department are unparalleled.

Dr. N.N.Choudhuri of Ramjas College took over as Head of the Department in the year 1949. A full-fledged University Department saw its inception only in the year 1953 when a post of Reader in Sanskrit was created and filled up. Dr. N. N. Choudhuri of Ramjas College, who was already working as the Head of the Department, was appointed in the said position of Reader and was asked to take over as the first regular Head. In 1955 a position of Professor was created. Dr. N. N. Choudhuri was appointed as the first Professor. For a long time the principal focus of the Department was to provide instructions to Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses. Research occupied prime attention only few years later. Dr. Ram Gopal was the first Ph.D. student of the Department in the academic year 1953-54. Even in the late fifties, there used to be only five or six students in its M.A. program and one or two students in Ph.D. program. This situation continued for a number of years. It was only during the early sixties that a marked improvement in the numbers of students was seen. From being a small Department it has now grown to be one of the biggest Departments in the University with more than four hundred postgraduate students, more than one hundred fifty research scholars and more than one hundred fifty teachers in colleges and the University Department.

The Department of Sanskrit enjoys the pride of having some of the stalwarts in the subject as its faculties in the past. Prof. R V Joshi, an internationally acclaimed Sanskritist introduced the modern European research methods to the Department. He is the recipient of Sahitya Academy award and ‘Pravasi Bhartiya Sammana’. The special feature of the creative strength of Prof. Joshi has been his ability to author in Hindi, Sanskrit, French, Spanish and Latin with equal ease. He has the credits of publishing books and articles in all these languages. He has published the books from USA, Europe and India. He has composed fifteen Kāvyas and Mahākāvyas in Sanskrit and has edited and translated several books with detailed introductions and critical notes. Dr. Joshi has published more than thirty eight books and hundreds of scholarly articles in national and international journals. Some of his major works are ‘Satyam’ – The Eternal  Truth, Radhāpanchashati, Upasanacintamani (A book in eight volumes consisting of 400 pages), Swarnamala – An Encyclopedia in four volumes,  Bhaktimimansa in four volumes, Shivalinga Rahasya, an epic Ramapratapacaritam in two volumes, Yogsutra Patanjali (in Spanish), Laxmi-nrsimha-sahasra-nama-stotras, Vide di un Saggio Parma, Italia etc. Prof. Satyavrat Shastri, former Professor and Head of the Department is another highly acclaimed Sanskrit scholar, writer, grammarian and poet. He has written three Mahakavyas, three Khandakavyas, one Prabandhakavya, one Patrakavya and five works in critical writings in Sanskrit.

During his career he has won many national and international awards including the Sahitya Akademi Award for Sanskrit. Sahitya Academy conferred on him an award in the year 1968 for his poetry work, Srigurugovindasiṁhacharitam. He became the first recipient of the Jñanpith Award in Sanskrit language. He also served as Vice-Chancellor of Shri jagannath Sanskrit University, Puri, Odisha.

Dr. S S Rana, Former Reader of the Department served as Dean of the Colleges, University of Delhi for more than 12 years. He also served as Principal of Shivaji College, University of Delhi. Prof. Vachaspati Upadhaya, the former Professor and Head of the Department served as Vice-Chancellor of Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, New Delhi for a longest period of time (1994 to 2011). Prof. Satyapal Narang, Former Professor and Head of the Department served as Director, Institute Francaisede Indologies, Pondicherry. Former Professor and Head of the Department Dipti Sharma Tripathi served as Director of National manuscript Mission, Government of India for two consecutive terms -2010-2014. Dr. Shashi Prabha Kumar, former Professor of the Department served as Founder Vice-Chancellor, Sanchi University of Buddhist-Indic Studies, Sanchi, MP. She also served as Chairperson, School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies, JNU, New Delhi.

Prof. Ramesh C. Bharadwaj
Head
Department of Sanskrit

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The Department of Slavonic and Finno-Ugrian Studies is the only Department in India which offers courses in Slavonic languages namely Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Polish, Russian and Hungarian from the Finno-Ugrian group of languages. Today’s interconnected world places several challenges before contemporary students in respect of the knowledge and understanding of various global languages and cultures. The Department addresses the immediate need of a large number of students who aspire to travel and be academically prepared for study and employment in global institutions. In this sense, the Department fulfills a largely under-served critical need in the country by directly making students conscious of a rich heritage and making them employable. The courses offered by the Department have a two-fold aim – to empower students to become fluent users of these languages and to acquaint them with the diverse and rich civilizations of the important regions of East – Central Europe and Russia. The approach to teaching adopted by the Department is interdisciplinary and intercultural and we aim to create and emphasize a broad-based outlook that can promote critical and analytical skills of the students and enable them to research both traditional and emerging disciplines. The Department provides an exciting, vibrant, and affable environment to pursue language and literature study by critically exposing students to some of the greatest literary works and scholarly writings produced in East-Central Europe and Russia and encouraging them to analyze them against the backdrop of Western European and Indian cultures. This is further enhanced by developing language skills not merely through text-books and dynamic interaction but also by laying emphasis on other activities like film shows, exhibitions, quiz programmes, celebration of national festivals etc. This provides direct exposure to the languages and cultures of these societies and makes language learning a more meaningful and enjoyable experience with a lasting and long-term impact.

The Department of English has the same year of inception as the University of Delhi, 1922. The Department offers degrees at MA, MPhil and PhD levels and oversees undergraduate teaching at the 79 Colleges which are affiliated to the University. From 1970 the Department began functioning from two campuses: the main Campus at the Arts Faculty, North Delhi. Students also enroll at the Non-Collegiate Women’s Education Board for the MA degree. We provide intensive mentoring to our students both in and beyond the classroom in a wide variety of forums. Ongoing lectures, film screenings, symposia, conferences, and colloquia on interdisciplinary themes make up our calendar. 

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