{"id":3851,"date":"2019-03-07T07:05:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T07:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5ineprojects.com\/kannada-university\/?page_id=3851"},"modified":"2025-06-10T15:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T09:32:21","slug":"department-of-faculty-of-social-sciences-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kannadauniversity.org\/english\/department-of-faculty-of-social-sciences-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of History"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Faculty of Social Sciences<\/strong><\/h6>\n

[\/vc_column_text][stm_wp_custommenu nav_menu=”53″ width=”100%” el_class=”about-menu”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][stm_title title_tag=”h5″ title_color=”custom” page_title_enable=”true” subtitle_enable=”true” title_color_custom=”#000000″ title_margin_b=”10px”][\/stm_title][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1551353409867{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}” el_id=”welcome-about”][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=”12185″ img_size=”1000X800″ style=”vc_box_shadow_3d” css=”.vc_custom_1734336149181{margin-top: 30px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][stm_title title_tag=”h6″ title_color=”custom” title_font_weight=”400″ title_color_custom=”#000000″ title_font_size=”15px” title_line_height=”25px” title_margin_b=”10px”]The focus of the department is to take up systematic study of Kannada Lliterature in the sense of creative writing and also in the sense of all texts in Kannada both oral and written. The texts (both written and oral) are placed in the larger matrix of culture to research on various issues related to history, society, polity. The literary texts are read and interpreted in the light of recent theories so as to re-read them from the context of the present. The Department has so far organized several seminars and come out with publications on Cultural interface of old texts from the point of view of present context of globalization, nativism and other issues.[\/stm_title][\/vc_column][vc_column][vc_tta_tour color=”sky” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section title=”Introduction” tab_id=”1551782250578-541d3853-3a5d”][vc_column_text el_class=”language-list”]<\/p>\n

INTRODUCTION<\/strong><\/h6>\n

The department is involved in mainly three aspects of academics:<\/p>\n

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  1. Research<\/li>\n
  2. Teaching and<\/li>\n
  3. Debate and intervention in academic issues.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    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.<\/p>\n

    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.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Vision and Mission” tab_id=”1551782250579-b13d6b1a-924f”][vc_column_text el_class=”language-list”]<\/p>\n

    Vision Statement of the Department<\/strong><\/h6>\n
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    • To tackle the problems plaguing the Karnataka by historicizing them.<\/li>\n
    • To produce knowledge from the perspective of marginalized groups\/communities<\/li>\n
    • To produce history from the point of view of people, to change the dominant perspective<\/li>\n
    • To adopt interdisciplinary perspective to energize historiography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
      Mission Statement of the Department<\/strong><\/h6>\n
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      • Developing a well-furnished archive<\/li>\n
      • Publishing primary source materials for researchers<\/li>\n
      • To bring in Dalit, Tribal and Gender as analytical categories in constructing the historiography of modern Karnataka<\/li>\n
      • To have more workshops and training camps for history teachers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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        Uniqueness of the Department<\/strong><\/h6>\n

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        Department Profile<\/strong><\/h6>\n