Ancient Indian Culture

The Department was established in 1971. Ours is one of the exceptional institution affiliated to Mumbai University where this subject is taught. Ancient Indian Culture major was started in the academic year 2008-09. Department has its own collection of antiquities as an academic toolkit to teach archaeology and museology. Department has a library comprising books related to the subject. Our faculty organizes numerous field visits to various archaeological places as a part of academic venture.

The Department of Ancient Indian Culture is actively involve in research. We have organized various workshops, seminars and conferences. Buddhist and Pashupata Caves in Mumbai and Shakti in Indian Art, Archaeology, Literature and Philosophy was two proceedings of these academic events which we have published. Our faculty and students have numerous research papers published in National and International Journals on Indian Art and Archaeology.

The Department of Ancient Indian Culture offers Under Graduate (BA) Course in the Subject. Department also offers a Certificate Course in Ancient Indian Culture for those who wish to learn the basics of Indian Culture but are unable to join degree course. The department also offers basic and advance Certificate Coerces in Sanskrit in collaboration with Vishwa Adhyayan Kendra. In Association with Department of Geography of our college, we offer a course in Tourism and Travel Management, which is an add on Course of Mumbai University for students.

We are proud to say that our students have bagged various academic prizes in Univeristy. Few of our students also have received fellowships as well.

The Department in association with Dnyanprabha Organisation is conducting various courses of Sanskrit and related topics since 2013. Initially Sanskrit Courses  started with the name Research and Innovation center but Dnyanprabha has taken the initiative. We offer Sanskrit Courses named

The subject of Ancient Indian Culture mainly deals with various aspects of Indian culture. It comprises of the study of Indian Archaeology, Art, Literature, Socio-Economic History of Ancient India, Museology, Conservation and Preservation, Heritage Tourism, Ethno-Archaeology, Development of Sciences in Ancient India, Development of Religious and Philosophical traditions in Ancient India and so on. We deal with tangible as well as intangible heritage and its preservation. We try to explore roots of Indian Culture.

Large Number of alumni of the Department are in Tourism Industry. The Subject also helps to work in the field of Museums, Achieves, Conservation Labs. There are proud ex-students of the Department who are in the noble profession of Teaching. Studies in Ancient Indian Culture opens avenues by crating academic foundation for the further studies in Archaeology, Anthropology, Heritage Management, Heritage Conservation, Tourism and Media.

The Subject helps to understand the Human history and its evolution in India through ages. It nurtures the creative minds to venture into various fields.