About the Department

Brief History:
The Department of Philosophy has a distinguished history not only in City College but also in the entire annals of university education in India.

Around 1881-82 the department was founded and Pandit Shibnath Sastri took the leading role.

The Department got its true impetus to philosophical studies from the intellectual giant of 19th century like Acharya Brajendranath Seal and in the following decades flourished under the great scholars of 20th century � Prof. Hiralal Halder, Prof P. B.Chatterjee, Prof. Mohit Sen, Prof. Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, Prof.Satindranath Chakraborty, to name a few. Their intellectual rigour, sharpness of perception, artful and profound subtlety in philosophical issues influenced the academic world and brought international recognition for the College.

The history of the Department would remain incomplete without the mention of her students who brought honour and pride for the college. Prof. Ramaprasad Das, an alumnus of the department became the Vice Chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University.

The Department's contribution to general college activities is by no means negligible. Prof.Satindranath Chakraborty, Prof. Sridhar Banerjee helped the college administration to overcome the crisis when it mattered most for the benefit of teaching and non-teaching staff of the college. Prof. Chakraborty enjoys a special place in Bengal education system as he played a pioneering role to promote welfare of the teaching fraternity.

Overview:

• Names of Programmes/Courses offered: Under Graduate (UG)
• Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved: NIL
• Annual/semester/choice-based credit system (program-wise): SEMESTER
• Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments: NO
• Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreigninstitutions, etc.: NIL
• Details of courses/programs discontinued (if any) with reasons: NIL
• Student-Teacher Ratio (program-wise): --

MoU:

• MoU with Gangadharpur College
  

Ex-Teachers:

• 
  Acharya Brajendranath Seal
  (1884-1885)
  
• 
  Prof. Hiralal Halder
  
  
• 
  P. B. Chatterjee
  
  
• 
  Prof. Mohit Sen
  
  
• 
  Prof. Debiprasad Chattopadhyay
• 
  Prof. Satindranath Chakraborty
• 
  Prof. Ramaprasad Das
  
  
• 
  Prof. Prabhakar Sengupta
  
  
• 
  Prof. Sridhar Chandra Banerjee
• 
  Prof. Sandipana Sarkar
  
  
• 
  Prof. Sisir Ranjan Bhattacharya
• 
  Smt. Sanjukta Basu
  
  

Infrastructure:

• Department has one laptop for Departmental work and rich seminar library.

Distinctiveness:

• Excellent Infrastructure for Undergraduate course.
• One out of five faculty members are with Ph.D. and two are pursuing for Ph.D.
• Rich departmental seminar library as well as central library inspires our students to go for reading habit.

Best Practices:

• The department inculcates friendly relationship between teachers and students.
• The department assists the students at personal level, when asked for.
• The department helps the students to form social personality and stop disintegration in Social, Political and Family life.
• The department takes an earnest effort to make their students sensible and responsible citizens of the country.