School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Welcome to the School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

You will find here a very refreshing and a very deep engagement with society, culture, literature, art and technology. The humanities and the social sciences are emerging as an integrative force in the modern world and the modern workplace. Technology firms are looking for arts graduates to build human-centred design, institutions are looking for chroniclers and historians, governments are looking for policy analysts, the social sector is looking for impactful solutions, and the media is looking for people who can build crucial perspectives on complex issues. Even while opening up to the future, we are looking into the founts of knowledge from our pasts that can be made to work for our contemporary concerns and contexts. Contemporary arts graduates occupy a special niche: they know their history, economic theory, and literary criticism, but are also adept at technology and data analysis and visualisation. They can interpret complex messages coded in multiple mediums: verbal, visual, oral, numerical and many more. At the School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences in Chanakya, we are sure you will discover an emerging world of possibilities for the Arts.

Programmes

Advisory Committee

Prof. John Robert Clammer

Prof. Biswajit Das 

Faculty members

Arjun Bharadwaj

Visiting Faculty, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Prof. K. V. Raju

Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., Sardar Patel University, Gujarat

Member, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister
Prof. Sandeep Nair

Professor & Dean, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.A. In Economics and PhD in Management

Member, State Advisory Committee, RTE GoK.
Prof. H. S. Ashok

Professor of Psychology, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Bangalore University

Honorary Professor at Centre of Education Social Sciences
Prof. Ashwin Kumar A. P.

Dean, Academics

Ph.D., Manipal University

Former Director, Centre for Learning Futures, Ahmedabad University
Dr. Padmavathi B.S.

Deputy Director- Academics, Chanakya University

Ph.D., Bangalore University

Former Director, Centre for Educational and Social Studies (CESS)
Dr. Vinayachandra Banavathy

Consultant, Strategic Initiatives

Ph.D., Pondicherry University

Director Indica Yoga, Guest Faculty at University of Ghent, Belgium
Dr. Rajesh Aruchamy

Associate Professor, School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Bharathiar University, Coimbatore

Prof. Ramakrishna Pejathaya

Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Director, Centre for IKS

Ph.D., Rastriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Tirupati

Dasha Avadhani-Poet
Dr. Vinayak Rajat Bhat

Associate Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Rastriya Sanskrit Samsthana, Sringeri

Co-author of the Text book on IKS
Dr. Naveen Bhat

Associate Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Central Sanskrit University, Delhi

Author, Researcher
Dr. Sritha Sandon

Associate Professor

Ph.D., Martin Luther Christian University, Shillong.

Dr. Priyanka Dwivedi

Associate Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Bangalore University

Speaker & Faculty Trainer
Dr. Sudeshna Mukherjee

Associate Professor and Director, Social Impact Centre

MA, MPhil, PhD, NET in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Public Policy (IIM, Kolkata)

Charu Ratna Dubey

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Researcher, Taipei University, Taiwan
Saurav Sarmah

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Ajay Chandra

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.Sc., Bangalore University

Giridarshan M.

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

(Ph.D.), University of Mysore

Deepak Raj Pandaya

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Sindhu D. M.

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Central University of Karnataka

Shubhashri Gopalkrishna Kamalapur

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.S.W., KSET

Swaraj Kumar Dey

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., in economics from IIM Kozhikode

Renjith Raj

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., BITS Pilani

Isha Sharma 

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.A., Centre for Development Studies, JNU, Thiruvananthapuram

Aarti Nagpal Mehta

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., University of Hyderabad.

Sangeeta Ramesh

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D.

Tukaram Badiger

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Central University of Karnataka

NFSC Awardee
Shruti Kanitkar

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., IIT Bombay

Kanakavalli Santhanam

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

(Ph.D.), University of Mumbai, M.A. Sanskrit (Vedanta Specialization), M.Music

Basavaraj Kumasi

Assistant Professor, School of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Kuvempu University, Shivamogga

Heddari Ravikumar

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.A., University of Mysore

Keshava Chandra

Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M.A.

Author and Poet
Sujit Kumar Chowdhury

Professor of Practice, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

M. Phil.(Sociology), JNU, New Delhi

Former Chief Postmaster General of Bihar State
Rajendrakumar Joshi

Adjunct Faculty, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., IIT Mumbai

Faculty Trainer- Philosopher
Paul A. Barresi

Visiting Faculty, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Boston University

Professor, Southern New Hampshire University (U.S.A.)
Habil Narahari Rao

Visiting Faculty, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., Universität des Saarlandes, Germany

Former Privatdozent (Adj. Professor), Universität des Saarlandes, Germany
Meena Nair

Adjunct Faculty, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Ph.D., JNU, New Delhi

Research Trainer

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June 28th, 2024
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March 21st, 2024
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January 20th, 2024
Exploring the ancient roots of Bharatiya jurisprudence and its contemporary relevance.

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