About The Department

The Girl’s Department of our parent college, the City College, started with the sanction of C.U. on due inspection in the year 1945. Sanskrit, the 6^th in serial in the list of 13 subjects in the Girl’s Department of the College was taught in the I.A., Under-graduate (Pass and Honours) and Pre-University courses up to the years 1960-61. Thereafter, the Department was seeking a separate affiliation as gathered from the report by the U.G.C. The Department emerged as an independent College in the name of Rammohan College on 6^th January, 1961.

       From the date of the foundation of Rammohan College, Sanskrit was a subject affiliated from C.U. for the Pass and Honours in the Degree Course of Under-graduate. The Department of Sanskrit started on 6^th January,1961 with a single full-time teacher, Sm. A. Sen, M.A. From its inception she took the entire burden of not only embarking upon a pro-active policy to ensure the student’s progress in the class and examinations, but also making the subject popular to the student community with untiring effort of her and support she got from the authorities and colleagues from other departments.

   In course of time, the Sanskrit department stood as a full-fledged constituent of the College. The teaching staff of the Department increasingly consisted of four permanent full-time teachers, as envisaged in the College Prospectuses, Sessions 1968-69 and 1969-70. They were Sm. Pratima Bose, M.A., Sm. Anima Sen, M.A., D.Phil., Sri Dhirendranath Bag, M.A. and Sir Brajabehari ChakravartyM.A., D.Phil.

Dr. Brajabehari Chakravarty left the College as he got betterment in the Department of Sanskrit, University of Calcutta. Later on, due to unavoidable circumstances, the departmental full-time teaching staff reduced into three statutory teachers. In 1972, they were Sm. Pratima Bose, Sm. Anima Sen and Sm. Pratima Mukherjee, M.A. For a long time one sanctioned permanent full-time teaching post had fallen vacant due to the retirement of Sm. Pratima Mukherjee on 31.05.2002. Dr. Suranjan Sarkar has been appointed as Assistant Professor of Sanskrit in the place of Sm. Pratima Mukherjee on 11.09.2014. before his appointment Dr. Didhiti Biswas was appointed as a full-time lecturer in Sanskrit and she served the department for approx. one year. Thereafter she left the college as she got betterment in the Sanskrit Department of C.U.

Prospect

Today the Sanskrit Department has merely three full-time teachers, Dr. Biswarup Saha, Sm. Kakali Chatterjee, and Dr. Suranjan Sarkar (H.O.D).

ACADEMIC PROGRAMME

• Three years (Six semester) CBCS Honours Degree Course (C.U. Syllabus)
• Two years (Four semester) CBCS General Degree Course to cater to Honours Students (C.U. Syllabus) of:

Philosophy

Education

History

• Three years General Degree Course (CBCS).

ACHIEVEMENTS

Many students from our department had successfully passed the examination and is now involved in different prestigious professions. Some of our students have secured first class in Honours in the following years- 2017 (Pinky Das), 2019 (Brishti Bhowmick), 2021 (Pallabi Sarkar).

Students Intake Capacity for Sanskrit Honours

Result Summary

(1+1+1) system (Hons)

(1+1+1) system (General)

Result Summary

(CBCS) system (Hons)