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The department is currently offering three year under graduate programme in History under CBCS, four year under graduate programme in History under NEP 2020 and Post Graduation programme. The intact capacity for four year undergraduate promramme is 60. For Post Graduation programme the department has the capacity to enroll 40 students in each semester.

 

 

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History of the Department:

The history of the Department of History, Jagannath Barooah College is intractably linked with the establishment of the college in 1930. History as a subject in Intermediate classes was started from the very beginning where eminent Indologist and the established principal of the college, Krishna Kanta Handiqui, took the responsibility of teaching the students. Later on, from 1962 major course in history was offered by the college. From the year 2023 Post-Graduate Programme in History was offered by the department. At present both under graduate and post graduate programme are offered by the Department of History. The fundamental thrust area of the department is to impart holistic education to its students with a intricate understanding of the past socio-cultural dynamics. Currently the department has 192 students pursuing both under graduate and post graduate programmes.

 

List of former and current Head of the Department

 Sl No. Name Tenure
 1  Guna Govind Datta  1930-1952
 2  Nobin Chandra Goswami  1952-1964
 3  Amiya Kumar Sarmah  1964-1979
 4  Aboni Prasad Bhattacharyya  1979-1982
 5  Ghana Kanta Nath  1982-1991
 6  Dr. Ajit Kumar Dutta  1991-2010
 7  Anita Sharma  2010-2013
 8  Dipali Basumatary  2013-2014
 9  Indreswar Das  2014-2022
 10  Pankaj Goswami  2022-Date

 

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