Dr Davinder Singh
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Among the College's founding departments — a continuous home for Punjabi literature, criticism, folklore, and the literary creativity of its students.
The Department of Punjabi possesses the significance of being one of the initial departments to be established along with the foundation of the College in 1966.
Originally, the Department offered compulsory and elective courses in Punjabi to undergraduate students. With the passage of time, in 1991, the Master's course was introduced for the postgraduate class, elevating the Department to its current status as the Postgraduate Department of Punjabi.
The first batch of the Master's class consisted of ten students; within a year of the course's introduction the strength rose to forty, gaining popularity and acceptance among prospective students. The number has been on a constant rise since.
Beyond classroom instruction, the Department constantly organises seminars and tours to historical and literary places of interest — extending the work of teaching into a wider engagement with the language, its texts, and the places that shape them.
From an undergraduate foundation to the two-year Master's, the Department's courses lead a steady passage through the language and its literature.
The PG Department of Punjabi runs the SahitSabha, a literary society actively working to motivate students towards specialisation in literary creativity and writing skills.
The Sabha regularly organises Kavidarbar — the recital gathering at the heart of Punjabi literary life — alongside seminars, readings, and other activities that develop students' interest in Punjabi literature and its public forms.
Through the Sabha, the work of the classroom is extended into the practice of creating literature itself — a measure of how seriously the Department takes its students' creative ambition.
The faculty's specialisations range across narratology and linguistics, fiction, folklore, criticism, the British and Pakistani Punjabi novel, and meta-criticism.
Prof Jagjit Singh and Prof Balwinder Singh — retired faculty members who served the College with meritorious scholarship and dedication.
The Department welcomes students into a continuous tradition of Punjabi literary scholarship — its language, its writers, and the work of carrying both forward.