The Department of Political Science aims at inculcating the values of higher learning and research among the students of Marathwada – a region comprising some of most backward districts in the country. Founded in 1963, the Department boasted of the academically credentialed and socially committed teacher’s rightfrom its inception. Professor S.V.Pathan, Dr.Mohammed Umar, was those who set ahigh benchmark of learning and research for the students to strive to.Following in their footsteps, the succeeding generation of teachers in the department endeavored to instill in students not only the values of excellence,but also those of humanity in a belief that knowledge cannot be produced in isolation. They continue to teach the students that the crux of success lies asmuch in acquisition of classroom knowledge as in developing a vision to reconnoiter a far more challenging life that awaits them outside the campus.
The Department offersB.A. M.A., programs wherein around 100 students enroll every year. In recent years, the discipline of Political Science underwent a sea-change in its outlook on the extensive zones of its inquiry. As such, the Department, too, remolded its approach, incorporating the interdisciplinary thrust in teaching core subjects like Political theory, philosophy, foreign policy and promoting research in the emerging areas of Dalit politics, and subaltern and minority studies. Consequently, research projects like Indian foreign Policy and soon have been undertaken by the teachers.
The Department regularly conducts seminars and workshops. The Department has been an integral part of a collaborative effort to establish and promotes integrative researchand organization of seminars, conferences and workshops with a special focus on varied dimensions of the backwardness afflicting rural Marathwada.