Faculty of Social Sciences

About Us Established in 1922, the Department of History was one of the Founding Departments of the University of Delhi. At least for 2 decades the Department (like many other depts.) was not having any direct faculty member as in the most of the subjects teaching was being organized at colleges only by the college faculty. It was only in 1943 S.N.Sen was appointed as the first Professor of the Department. The Department has long been at the forefront of Global and National Academia, with its faculty having been involved in the nurturing and running of prominent journals and institutions such as the Indian History Congress, one of the largest community of Historians in the world. The Department of History has gained a global reputation for its intellectual contributions to the discipline. At different junctures in the past its members heralded scholarship in the field of socio-economic history of a Marxist persuasion and this impacted the field of ancient, medieval and modern history. Over the years this scholarship was considerably nuanced, again by the Department’s faculty members, and it is their work, once again, that has impacted the global academy in fields such as archaeology