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Among the founding departments of the College — committed to the language, its literature, and the long arc of Hindi katha sahitya and modern fiction.
Founded with the College itself in 1966, the Department of Hindi has been a continuous home for the language and its literature for nearly six decades.
The Department offers a steady, considered course of study at the undergraduate level — beginning with the three-year B.A. and continuing into the two-year B.A. (Honours) specialisation, available in the second and third years to students who clear the qualifying threshold. The pace is patient; the canon is wide.
The faculty's principal areas of interest lie in katha sahitya — the tradition of Hindi narrative — and in modern fiction, particularly the short story (kahaniyan). Teaching draws on this expertise to introduce students to both the older traditions of Hindi prose and the work of contemporary writers.
An Add-On Course in Sanskrit is offered alongside the main programmes, extending the department's range into the language from which much of Hindi literary culture descends.
An add-on course in Sanskrit, open to students of the College — extending the Department's range into the source language of much classical Indian literary thought.
From Premchand to the contemporary kahani, from prose to literary criticism, the Department welcomes students into a continuous tradition of Hindi study.