INTRODUCTION

The department is involved in mainly three aspects of academics:

1. Research
2. Teaching and
3. Debate and intervention in academic issues.

Department of History conducts research on the history of Karnataka. The department has brought out a comprehensive history of Karnataka in seven volumes, Encyclopedia of History in Kannada. It has also come out with a series on social movements during Post-Unification of Karnataka as well as five volumes on Cultural History of Karnataka. The faculty members have produced more than 60 books on their specializations such as identity, language urbanization, Tribal and Dalit Studies. So far the department has produced 76 M.Phil. and 42 Ph.D. dissertations. The Department coordinates teaching and research programmes.

The Department has involved in the present academic debates in/on history and has contributed to the debate by organizing Workshops, Seminars and Conferences on issues such as Methodology, Historiography, local and oral history and recent Writings on the history Karnataka. The department has collaborated with prestigious National/International Institutions such as Indian Council of Historical Research, Commonwealth Commission, U.K. French Institute of Pondicherry, M.C. Arthur Foundations and UNESCO, DSERT, Department of Primary and Higher Education, Government of Karnataka, Administrative Reforms Committees, Government of India.