History is a very important, interesting and comprehensive subject. We can say, it is a “queen” or “mother” of the social sciences. In the words of B.M. Laddell Hart, “History is the record of man’s steps and slips. It shows us that the steps have been slow and slight: the slips, quick and abounding. It provides us with the opportunity to profit by the stumbles and tumbles of our fore-runners. Viewed a right, History is the broadest studies, embracing every aspect of human life. It lays the foundation of education by showing how mankind repeats it errors and what those errors are. Bismarck used to remark, “Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to learn by other people’s experiences. This study of history offers us that opportunity. It is universal experience-infinitely longer, wider and more varied than any individual’s experience.”

Our department from the time of its inception delved itself to enable students so that they could –

• Develop qualities of ideal citizenship.

• Develop qualities of leadership.

• Promote self-understanding.

• Develop the consciousness about society and social values.

• Understand the influence of historical facts and situations upon life.

• Develop the spirit of patriotism.

• Grow the sense of tolerance.

• Develop international understanding.

• Grow awareness towards local history.

• Teach moral values and universal values.

Though the admission in the department is done on merit basis, but keeping in view the concept of globalization, the age of electronic media, the best utilization of human resources and social need of the day, students hailed from underprivileged class of this district, have been given special consideration during admission. The complete admission procedure is online and it adheres to the rules and regulations of Vidyasgar University and the Higher Education Dept., Govt. of West Bengal.

The infrastructure facilities of our department is presented below

• No separate departmental class room for lack of space.
• One ICT enabled class room
• No separate departmental library but central library caters to the needs of the students.

Year wise Student Admission (Hons) during 2019-20 to 2023-24

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE STUDENTS

The performance of the students in final examination for the last five years in the honours category is given in the following table-

Graphical Representation of Academic Performance of Students

For teaching purpose, the most common method, used by the departmental teachers, is chalk and talk. The departmental teachers use power point presentations, arrange movie and documentary shows. We have one smart class room and other class rooms. Apart from delivering lectures and distributing class notes, students are given different web links to collect study materials (YouTube, Digital Library & Google Classroom). Department prepares a semester wise lesson plan for proper teaching and to complete the allotted syllabus in due time. Students are also encouraged to participate in class seminar and group discussions on a regular basis. As a part of Internal Assessment (10 mark for each Honours & General paper) we take 2 class tests for each honours paper and 2 class test for each General paper.

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Our department has two sanctioned post against substantive vacancy. At present our department has two full time teachers against substantive posts, and three fulltime state aided college teachers.

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Students of this department deal with versatile carrier options. Some students opt for higher studies and they are advised to take admission in reputed institutions for conducting their post graduate, M.Phil and PhD. For this, students are given the special guidance. Students who have requisite qualities for leadership, qualities of taking instant decision, are being advised to go for administrative service through competitive examinations. For this, we not only collect books, but also collect some magazines, namely, competition master and competition success etc. which are very helpful for competitive examinations. Students, who want to face challenge, are advised to take several self-employment generated schemes, to start a start-up business.

Teachers Pursuing PhD

1. 1. To open departmental libraries.
   2. To introduce student exchange programme with other
   3. We are planning to organize seminars, extended lectures,

1. Strength: Our department is equipped with qualified teachers. Three of our faculty members are pursuing P.hd. Miss Shawttiki Ojha is a rank holder at UG (First Class Second) and PG (First Class First) level. Mr. Avirup Sinha stood First Class 7^th at PG level. Our students are well disciplined and
2. Weakness: Less student strength and insufficient
3. Opportunity: ICT class room and good collaboration with the faculty of other institutions.
4. Challenge: To fill up full intake capacity, to orient them to get placed in the right position in the society