About Us

The Department of Sociology was established in the year 1988. It offers Post Graduate, M. Phil and Ph. D programmes of studies. It has six full time faculty members. They are Prof. Biswajit Ghosh, Prof. Anirban Banerjee, Mr.Bibhas Bagchi, Dr, Ananda Mohan Kar, Dr. Sourav Madhur Dey and Dr. Ananta Kumar Biswas. The department also offers a job-oriented P.G Diploma in Guidance and Counselling in collaboration with the Dept. of Lifelong Learning, The University of Burdwan. Teachers are also involved in the teaching-learning process of MA/M.Phil programmes of Women’s Studies.

The Department has carried out several major research project works on issues related to contemporary social life like human trafficking, child marriage, dowry, and domestic violence, marginalization of tea plantation workers, child labourer, unorganized workers, tribal women, globalization, environment, self-help group, student radicalism and Status of Education. UNICEF, UGC, Save the Children and Pratham Education Foundation have offered some of these projects. Teachers have published papers in reputed international journals on all these aspects and published books and edited volumes to generate useful knowledge.