Preface/ VC's message

Although Ambedkar University, Delhi is only three years old, there are many accomplishments that we can truly be proud of. Eight MA programmes, seven BA Honours programmes, several MPhil and PhD programmes are on offer through five schools which have been activated. The University has been able to attract a few distinguished senior professionals and a large number of young and highly talented scholars into its core faculty. The University has been able to make a mark by institutionalising some significant innovative practices in curricular design, an interdisciplinary approach, a versatile assessment system, concurrent appointments of faculty and so on. The first batch of graduates from our three flagship MA programmes has been well received in the job market. Notwithstanding these accomplishments, AUD still remains largely a bundle of possibilities waiting to unfold fully.

The AUD community is conscious of the historic opportunity that it has at hand, which is to demonstrate that it is possible for a public university committed to research and higher learning in the social sciences and humanities to bridge concerns of equity and social justice with quality and excellence, economic growth with social transformation, market demands with social needs. We are only too aware that the task we are engaged in is not merely to establish a new institution but to create a new institutional culture – based on collegiality, engaged scholarship and nurturance of creativity.

Professor Shyam B. Menon
Vice Chancellor