• A specialised Centre for European Studies
• Numerous departmental publications
• Research collaboration/ scholar exchange programme with Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt Universitat, Berlin and Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway.
• Many student recipients of various fellowships, Individual faculty members have different research interests with established publication records
• Students enrolled in doctoral research in eminent institutions within India and abroad.
• Every year the Department organise Prof. A.C. Banerjee Memorial Lecture and Biplabi Satin Sen Memorial Lecture and eminant scholars address various topics.
• Running a highly successful UGC-SAP Programme with thrust areas in History of Environment, and Science
• Series of Invited lectures and seminars organised under DSA-SAP Programme, some of them are:
• A lecture by Professor Ranabir Chakravarti, formerly of CHS, JNU, on ‘Environment and State Formation in the Maurya Period’, 19th March, 2019.
• A lecture by Professor Ranabir Chakravarti, formerly of CHS, JNU, on ‘State and Forests Under the Gupta Rule’, 19th March, 2019.
• A lecture by Professor Ranabir Chakravarti, formerly of CHS, JNU, on ‘Bay of Bengal Maritime Network and Monsoon Wind in the Eastern Indian Subcontinent’, 26th March, 2019.
• A lecture by professor Ranjan Chakrabarti, on ‘Rabindranath Tagore: Environmentalism and Environmental Activism in South Asia’.
• A lecture by Professor Ranjan Chakrabarti, on ‘Thinking Otherwise: History and the Writing of History’, 15th March, 2019.
• A Lecture by Professor Asok Das, Former Director, Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum Former Director, on 'Mughal View of Nature: Flora and Fauna in Mughal Painting', 6th March, 2019.
• A Lecture by Professor Asok Das, Former Director, Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum Former Director, on ‘Taking a Close Look: Landscape Paintings of, 6th March, 2019.
• A Lecture by Professor Asok Das, Former Director, Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum Former Director, on ‘Opening the Window to the West: Europe in Mughal Art', 7th March, 2019.
• A public lecture by Prof. Peter Stanley FAHA of the University of New South Wales Canberra, on 'The Santhal Rebellion: Some Preliminary Questions and Issues in Military, Social and Environmental History', 2nd November, 2019.
• A public lecture by Prof. Peter Stanley FAHA of the University of New South Wales Canberra, ‘Black Saturday: A Case Study in Environmental and Social History’, 5th November, 2019.
• A lecture by Professor Chandi Prasad Nanda Department of History Ravenshaw University, Cuttack on ‘Cholera in the Colonial Orissa’, 18th october, 2019.
• A lecture by Professor Himanshu Prabha Ray formerly of CHS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi research fellow, Oxford centre for Hindu studies, Oxford on ‘Cultural Landscape of Asokan Inscriptions, 18th november, 2019.
• A lecture by Prof. Suchandra Ghosh, Department of Ancient Indian History & Culture, University of Calcutta, on ‘Changing Landscape from Bactria to Mathura: Environment and Quotidian Culture in Early Historic India’, 25th september, 2019.
• A lecture by Professor Sudipta Sen, professor of History Director, Middle East/South Asian Studies Programme University of California, Davis, on ‘River Ganga as Political Icon and the Contested Terrains of Indian History, 11th september, 2019.
• A lecture by professor Chandi Prasad Nanda, Department of History Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, on ‘Historiography – Major Issues in Environmental History’, 21st October, 2019.
• A lecture by Professor Himanshu Prabha Ray formerly of CHS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Research Fellow,Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Oxford, on ‘Archaeology of Early Temples in the Mapalprabha Valley’, 21st November, 2019.
• Public lecture by Prof. Suchandra Ghosh Department of Ancient Indian History & Culture, University of Calcutta, on ‘Cultural Ecology and History in the Ganga - Padma - Brahmaputra Deltas in Early Medieval Times’, 23rd September, 2019.
• A lecture by Professor Sudipta Sen, Professor of History, Director, Middle East/South Asian Studies Programme University of California, Davis, on ‘Thoughts on History and the Deep Ecology of the Ganges Delta’ 17th september, 2019.
• Seminar / Workshop/ Conference / Symposium Organised:
Department organise Seminar / Workshop/ Conference / Symposium, some of them are:
• The Adhir Chakrabarti Memorial Seminar on “Paradigms of Social, Cultural and Economic History: Ancient India and Southeast Asia”, held jointly by the Department of History, Jadavpur University and the Adhir Chakrabarti Memorial Trust on 6th Sept, 2017.
• International Seminar on “Commemorations”, Department of History, Jadavpur University, 1-2 February, 2018.
• International seminar on‘Environment, Religion and Culture: Research Methods and Perspectives on Pre-colonial South Asia’ organised by the UGC-SAP (DSA), Department of History, Jadavpur University, 5-6 February 2019 in collaboration with Anneliese Maier Research Award of Humboldt Foundation, Bonn & Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich.
• International Seminar on “Warfare in South Asia: from Ancient to Modern Times”, held by the Department of History, Jadavpur University on 7th – 8th January, 2020.
• Seminar on ‘Letters and Archives: Traditions, Historical Experiences and The Archivist’ organised by the RUSA 2.0 Research Project, “Lettering the Self and the Time: An Endangered Epistolary Archive”, Department of History, Jadavpur University, 17 February, 2020.
• International Seminar on ‘Living in Cities: Historical Perspectives on Urban Environment, Experiences & Culture’, jointly held by UGC DSA – I SAP, & RUSA 2.0, Department of History, Jadavpur University on 6th – 8th February, 2020.
• Refresher course on ‘Exploring the Urban; In Time and Space’ from 1st March to 15th March, 2021.
• Seminar on ‘Exploring Emerging Perspectives in History’ for MPhil research scholars, 5th December 2022.
• International Seminar on ‘Studying History: Perspectives and Sources’, Department of History, Jadavpur University, 23rd February to 1st March 2023.
• National Seminar on ‘Two Hundred Years of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah. ‘Home’ and Exile in Calcutta’, Department of History, Jadavpur University, in collaboration with School of Media Communication and Culture, Jadavpur University &Know Your Neighbour, Kolkata, 30th and 31st January 2024. Heritage Walk at Metiabruzon 1st February 2024.
