Rammohan College

Amidst the turmoil of Freedom Struggle, a separate division of City College for girl students only, had its inception in1943.There was no separate department called Political Science rather, Economics and Political Science used to offer courses jointly, having three papers for each. In the year,1952,owing to the huge number of students a separate morning wing of City College was established as Rammohan College. By the early sixties, Department of Political Science had its own separate entity.

A name must be remembered here, Sri Prabhat Kumar Sarbadhikari. Originally he belonged to the discipline of Physics, he attained a degree in Political Science just to be an eligible part of the Department which would enable him to  put his utmost effort to strengthening the newborn Department of Political Science. Few more names must be mentioned, who had later put in relentless effort to attain the heights the department has enjoyed for decades, Diptirekha Guha, Sushil Kumar Sen, Tapas Basu, Shishir Kumar Sanyal, Pabitra Gupta, Ratna Gupta and specially Debasis Chakraborty. This last name deserves to be mentioned with great respect. With his tireless effort many new arrangements were initiated in the Department including the establishment of Departmental Seminar Library. He even gifted a new almirah to keep the books in a systematic order and provided a good number of books which remain a pride of the department library. The responsibility for setting up a new library was entirely shouldered by Professor Debasis Chakraborty.

Department of Political Science of Rammohan College is still diligently following the footsteps of their predecessors!

The Department offers a three year Honours Degree Course (C.U. Syllabus). It also offers a two year General Degree Course (C.U. Syllabus) to cater to Honours students  of varied subjects Bengali, Sanskrit, History, Education, Philosophy, Geography, Economics. At present the Department has four full time professors and one part time professor.

The Department strictly follows the CBCS syllabus. Some of the elective courses we offer are Understanding South Asia, Understanding Global Politics, Human Rights in a Comparative Perspective and Understanding the Legal System for Honours students. For General students we offer Indian Foreign Policy, Human Rights: Theory and Indian Context, Elementary Dimensions of Research and more. The papers are selected so as to equip students with basic knowledge of the subject in legal, research and other fields, which they might put to use in future.

The Department of Political Science is proud of its huge student strength and looks forward to nurturing many more young minds.

Intake capacity 70 seats