The journey of the Department of History twins that of the college. Hundreds of students, majoring in History, have graduated from the college.

The department aims to develop a competitive environment where every student could give his/her best. It not only refines the raw talent of students to encourage career-building and readies them for their professional lives but also strives to inculcate social, ethical, and moral values to make them socially-aware and responsible citizens.

The department adopts interdisciplinary approaches to studies and seeks to infuse a scientific spirit among the students. It makes use of improved teaching methods and aids: lectures, smart boards, tutorials, and online and offline class tests. Teachers work towards making the classroom experience an interactive one in which students are encouraged to get actively involved.

The history curriculum covers themes spanning several millennia. Beginning from the pre-historic times through ancient, medieval, and colonial periods in the subcontinent to several decades into the post-independence India, students are introduced to the historical processes that fashioned the social, political, economic, religious, and cultural formations of the country. Part of the syllabi acquaints students with regional history, thus connecting them to their roots. European history forms a special part of the curriculum. From the emergence of early modern Europe to the end of the cold war, students get a taste of cultural and intellectual trends, political developments, technological progress, emergence of global ideologies, impact of wars, etc. and how these processes and events are still shaping our lives. Besides this, generic electives, introducing basic themes in the history of India and Europe, are meant for non-History students. Architecture and archaeology are taught as skill papers to impart to students the practical knowledge of the discipline and to familiarize them with our culture, aesthetics, and heritage.

The college has a rich library that houses thousands of books and also provides access to dozens of online journals through N-LIST. With more than a hundred titles added in the last two years, the History books section makes for one of the richest contributors to the catalogue.

To make the department more progressive and broad-based, and to promote personality development, we organize seminars, debates, quiz competitions, group discussion, etc. In line with this, an online quiz competition on October 4, 2021, to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday (October 2), and a debate competition on the National Education Day (November 11, 2021) were organized. The department conducts annual educational trips to places of historical significance located in different parts of Kashmir.

Currently, there are on roll over 100 students who have taken up History as a major, minor, skill, or generic elective subject.