National Seminar

On 2nd of April 2022, Department of History and Department of Political Science of the college organised a national-level seminar in Laxmi Devi Auditorium. The topic of the seminar was ‘People and Politics’. Seminar was inaugurated by the lighting of the lamp by the dignitaries and garlanding of the visionary founder members of the trust. Dr Jitendra Singh of History department introduced the topic. The keynote speaker and great historian Dr Saumya Gupta gave a new perspective towards history. She said that what is been visualized in olden times and whatever is written in the books is not the only history, it is something beyond that. She emphasized deconstructing the big words, to go through day-to-day history and to study the pages of subalterns to understand the history of an era or of an event in its fullest form. Dr Saumya quoted that after 1980, historians have opted broader framework of studies. The concept of micro history, history of below is now in trend. This has widened the scope of history.

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