Chair: Prof. Poonam Kumria

Co-ordinator: Dr. Vinita Sinha, Associate Professor, Department of English

Culture as a concept and practice attracts academic attention from a wide variety of disciplines. As a field of research, it opens up avenues for academicians, artists, administrators and archival researchers alike. In the Indian University system, disciplines as diverse as Anthropology, Language and Literary Studies compete to define culture as an arena of research and teaching. In the process they contribute to the expansion of its scope.

Academic moorings apart, culture assumes significance for 21st century India as the global society now recognizes that we have an inert human value to offer. With a rich rapporteur of Indian knowledge system and heritage, we attempt to infuse a new understanding of culture.

Centre for Culture Studies is intended to disseminate, deliberate and discuss the epistemological and ontological knowledge and to enlarge the comprehension of culture.

To foster research and teaching on culture.

To promote research with focus on, but not limited to, language, literature, religion, folklore, oral traditions, sculpture.

To conduct seminars, conferences and workshops on the fusion of culture, knowledge and development.

To design and offer courses relevant for Culture Studies in the framework of NEP 2020.

To publish the research and teaching material on culture and heritage, produced by both students and faculty.

To undertake and encourage research projects on themes in Culture Studies.

To initiate cultural exchange programmes with like-minded institutions both in India and abroad