History department of University was established in 1963. It is a composite department teaching varied courses in Indian History, Non-Indian History giving emphasis to emerging areas like social History, Intellectual History and subaltern History. Department of history unanimously persuaded multifaceted terrain of research. Nevertheless, ishas chosen to give emphasis to history of Deccan. Present faculty is engaged inthe various aspects of Deccan History ranging from Ancient to Modern.
The Department of History and Ancient Indian Culture of the Dr. BabasahebAmbedkar Marathwada University is one ofthe very few University in the entire country who has it own History museum which provides a glimpse into the varied and variegated aspects of India’sglorious heritage of arts and cultural History. The Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University is singularly fortune in being located in the vicinity ofthe world famous cave monuments of Ajanta and Ellora. This region is an archaeological paradise. It has yielded remarkable artifacts of the Prehistoric times and can boast of a variety of cave temples and structural edifices.
Inview of the rich archeological, artistic and historical potential of this region. The Department made beginning in collecting objects of artistic and historical value as a curriculum. In course of times this efforts emerged as a very impressive project. The present collection includes stone sculptures, bronze, coins, miniature paintings, gold, Silver and copper coins, decorative arts, arms and armor, woodcarvings and plain manuscripts and a variety of antiquities recovered in the archeological excavations at Bhokhardhan, Ter [Satavahana sites] and Daultabad.
