About Department
Established in 1962, department of history and Ancient Indian Culture is one of the oldest academic Department of University. It is a composite department teaching varied courses in Indian History, Non-Indian History giving emphases to emerging areas like social History, intellectual History and subaltern History. Department of History unanimously persuaded multifaceted terrain of research. Nevertheless it has chosen to give emphasis to history of Deccan. Present faculty is engaged in the various aspects of Deccan History ranging from Ancient to Modern.
The Department of History and Ancient Indian Culture of the Dr.BabasahebAmbedkarMarathewada University is one of the very few University in the entire country who has it own History Museum which provides a glimpse into the varied and variegated aspects of India`s glorious heritage of art and cultural History. The Dr.BabasahebAmbedkarMarathwada University is singularly fortunate in being located in the vicinity of the world famous cave monuments of Ajanta and Ellora. This region is an archaeological paradise. It has yielded remarkable artifacts of the Prehistoric times and can boast of a variety of cave temples and structural edifices.
In view of the rich archaeological, artistic and historical potential of this region. The Department made beginning in collecting objects of artistic and historical value as a curriculum. In course of time this efforts emerged as a very impressive project. The present collection includes stone sculptures, bronze, coins, miniature paintings, gold, Silver and copper coins, decorative arts, arms and armor, wood carvings and plain manuscripts and a variety of antiquities recovered in the archaeological excavations at Bhokhardhan, Ter [Satavahana sites] and Daulatabad.