History Department gave a farewell to Dr Amarjeet Kaur on 30th June 2017.
An Orientation Programme was conducted by Mr Satveer Singh for the new students admitted in the first year on 21st July 2017. The purpose of this programme was to introduce the students to the Delhi University system of education and evaluation along with the detailed description of their course and its different papers as well as value system of our college and its day to day working.
To commemorate the 75th year of the Quit India Movement our department had organized a Quiz Programme on 25th August 2017. Students from B A Honours as well as B A Programme courses participated in it. There were eight teams. Shikha and Priyanka Gupta of History Honours III year stood first. The teams who stood first, second and third were given cash prizes.
On 15th September 2017 the students and faculty experienced a Sufi extravaganza. We had invited Dr Kumkum Srivastava and Dr Sumel Singh Sidhu for lectures entitled Alternative Narratives – `Qalandars - An Antinomian Sufi Cult’ and `A Vernacular Approach – Bhagat Singh’, respectively.
Students of I and III year on a visit with faculty members as part of their practicum.
The second issue of the History e-newsletter was released on 27th October 2017 by Dr Kawarjit Kaur. The Editorial team includes Dr Daljit Kaur, Mr Satveer Singh and Dr Simmi Kapoor Mehta along with four student members Vaishnavi, Swati Chaudhary, Vandana Gauhar, Vishwa Preeti. Pranavi Jha helped the team in Hindi typing work.
The department organized an Alumnae Meet in the Mata Gujri Hall of the college on January 11, 2018. A lecture was to mark the occasion on ‘Archives, Libraries and Museums’ was delivered by Dr. Rajmani Srivastava, Rtd. Assistant Director of National Archives of india.