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Sadanlal Sanwaldas Khanna Mahila Mahavidayalay
University of Allahabad

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Faculty of Arts

About Faculty

PROF. DAMODAR DAS KHANNA ARTS FACULTY

“An educated girl will stay healthy, save money, build a business, empower her community, lift her country and change the world.”

Education always plays an important role in the all-round development of human beings as well as the nation. S.S. Khanna Girls' Degree College, Allahabad was established in 1975 and has gradually developed from a small beginning into a reputed institution.

In the Arts Faculty for the undergraduate course the following subjects are available:

  1. English Literature
  2. Hindi Literature
  3. Sanskrit Literature
  4. Urdu Literature
  5. Medieval History
  6. Ancient History
  7. Education
  8. Sociology
  9. Philosophy
  10. Music Vocal
  11. Music Instrumental
  12. Painting
  13. Economics
  14. Office Management & Secretarial Practices
  15. Geography
  16. Psychology
  17. Political Science

he subject of Office Management and Secretarial Practices is available to the students as optional subjects in the Degree Course even though this subject is not available in the University of Allahabad. The College has an ideal academic atmosphere, free from all extraneous disturbances. It seeks to make the student composition as pleural, diverse and representative in character as possible to foster liberal access to higher education for human and The activities of the college are designed to fall in line with its vision, mission and objectives of its founders. The array of programmes and activities like Seminars, Workshops, Guest Faculty Lecture, Quiz, Documentary Film Presentation etc. are organized by different Cells and Parishads which serve to make our girl students intellectually alert, morally upright, religiously oriented, socially conscious, culturally distinct and nationally integrated. Education in this college empowers the girls to think clearly, to act well in the world's work and gives them the power to appreciate life and face challenges.

Dr. Meenu Agrawal Coordinator

Faculty Members

Prof. Lalima Singh

Designation: Principal

Department: Department of Sociology

Research Interest: Sociology, Child labor, Women empowerment

Dr. Meenu Agrawal

Designation: Professor

Department: Dept of Ancient History

Research Interest: Culture, Studies in Puranas, Art & Architecture, Epigraphy, IKS

Prof. Jyoti Kapoor

Designation: Professor & Convener

Department: Department of Sanskrit

Dr. Manjari Shukla

Designation: Vice-Principal

Department: Department of Philosophy

Research Interest: Modern Western Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Shankar

Prof. Rachana Anand Gaur

Designation: Professor

Department: Convener, Dept of Hindi

Prof. Ritu Jaiswal

Designation: Professor & Convener

Department: Dept of Ancient History

Prof. Sangeeta Gautam

Designation: Professor

Department: Convener, Dept of Drawing & Painting

Capt. Rekha Rani

Designation: Professor

Department: Dept of Music (Vocal)

Dr. Tahira Parveen

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Dept of Urdu

Dr. Ruchi Malaviya

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Dept of English

Dr. Arifa Begum

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Dept of Urdu

Dr. Aditya Kumar Tripathi

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Dept of Hindi

Research Interest: Hindi Sahitya aur Stree Vimarsh

Dr. Riya Mukherjee

Designation: Assistant Professor & Coordinator of Law Faculty

Department: Dept of English

Research Interest: Film Studies, Dalit Literature, Afro-American Literature

Dr. Preeti Yadav

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Dept of Sociology

Research Interest: Women Health and Nutrition

Dr. Saumya Krishna

Designation: Assistant Professor & Coordinator of B.Ed. Faculty

Department: Dept of Sanskrit

Research Interest: Sanskrit Literature & Culture

Dr. Rashmi Singh

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Dept of Education

Research Interest: Qualitative Research Methodology, Gender Issues, Educational Psychology

Dr.Kanupriya Tripathi

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Geography

Research Interest: Urban Geography, Smart Cities, Environmental Transformation

Dr. Divya Singh

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Geography

Academic Activity

Date: 12 JUN 2025

Title : Short Story Writing Competition & Poetry Writing Competition

Short Story Writing Competition

(Self-composed short story in Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit, English)

Poetry Writing Competition

(Self-composed poetry in Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit, English)

Submissions can be made online at: https://forms.gle/mMc2oZD2eGivST3M6

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Date: 18 APR 2025

Title : Two Weeks Summer Camp for Students

Two Weeks Summer Camp for Students Organized by Social Science Club

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Date: 01 MAY 2024

Title : MOONJ CRAFT TRAINING Cum WORKSHOP

MOONJ CRAFT TRAINING Cum WORKSHOP

15 days Moonj Craft Training cum Workshop will be organised for the students and research scholars of the college under the banner of ICSSR sponsored research program 2024.

Scheduled from 27.05.24 to 12.06.2024.

Intrested students can register through this link: https://forms.gle/16twQikjEK9J8vzD6

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Date: 20 AUG 2021

Title : One-Day International Workshop on "Blog-based Learning, Teaching and Research"

One-Day International Workshop

on

"Blog-based Learning, Teaching and Research"

organized by

Department of Education, S. S. KHANNA GIRLS' COLLEGE

(A Constituent College of the University of Allahabad), Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India

in collaboration with

Department of Education, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India

on 17th August 2021

(10:00 A M. - 1:00 PM)

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Date: 16 AUG 2021

Title : History Association

History Association of S. S. Khanna Girls’ Degree College, Prayagraj organized an Online Quiz Competition on the occasion of Independence Day to celebrate Bharat Amrit Mahotsav, From 3rd August 2021 to 15th August 2021.

Faculty members, researchers, and students from different institutes of India participated in this quiz. A total of 1752 participants registered for the activity.

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Date: 05 FEB 2021

Title : Special Lecture

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Date: 01 FEB 2020

Title : Ajanta Caves: A Historical Narrative

Department of Ancient History, Culture & Archaeology, S. S. Khanna Girls’ Degree College organised a lecture on the topic “Ajanta Caves: A Historical Narrative” on 23.01.2021 from 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM.

The guest speaker for the occasion was Prof. P.D. Jagtap, Former HoD, Dept. of History, North Maharashtra University, Maharashtra.

The speaker was accorded a formal welcome by Dr. Meenu Agrawal, Convener and Associate Professor, Department of Ancient History, Culture & Archaeology, who also proposed the vote of thanks.

The programme was moderated by Dr. Nishi Seth and Ms. Priyanka Gupta, Assistant Professors, Dept. of Ancient History, Culture & Archaeology.

Prof. Jagtap expressed his views on Ajanta Caves in such a way that was an imaginative experience to feel the Ajanta caves virtually.

The lecture was conducted through the google meet platform.

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Date: 15 FEB 2020

Title : One day national Workshop on "Budget 2020-21 and Aspirational India Amidst Economic Showdown"

The Department of Economics, S.S. Khanna Girls’ Degree College, Allahabad organized one day national Workshop on "Budget 2020-21 and Aspirational India Amidst Economic Showdown”.

The workshop began with the lighting of the Lamp. Prof. Lalima Singh, Principal welcomed distinguished speakers with a bouquet. Mrs. Gunjan Sharma welcomed the guests.

The session started with the discussion on budget by Prof. P.K. Ghosh. Discussing the general ideas of budget, he focused on various deficits enumerated in the budget, mainly the revenue deficit and fiscal deficit and the challenges associated with it.

Mr. Dharmendra continued the discussion primarily focusing on agriculture sector’s growth. He pointed his discussion on data analysis methodology applied in India and various countries of the world and in light of comparative analysis supported Indian government’s methodology.

Dr. Abodh, the next speaker of the session had a balanced view about the budget. As per him, budget being a policy document, more focus should be made on gainful employment and investment should be made in sectors with higher multiplier effect.

Lastly Prof. Manmohan Krishna expressed his views relating to budget 2020. Prof. Krishna had a critical interpretation of this budget stating policies must be more people centre rather power centre.

Introducing with the concept of fiscal illustration, he questioned the efficiency of the expenditures made by the government. It was followed by an interactive session. Dr. Archana Tripathi gave the votes of thanks.

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Date: 10 DEC 2019

Title : Department of Medieval History

Guest Lecture by

Prof. Heramb Chaturvedi

"The Making of Gandhi"

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Date: 15 NOV 2019

Title : Department of Ancient History

Department of Ancient History

Lecture by

Prof HN Dubey (Retd. University of Allahabad)

‘‘वैदिक एवं पौराणिक इतिहास लेखन परम्परा’’

भारतीय इतिहास लेखन परम्परा पर प्रकाश डालते हुए बताया कि इतिवृत्त ही इतिहास है। वैदिक काल में इतिहास परम्परा वाचिक रुप में देखने को मिलती है। पुराणों के पहले आख्यान लोकवृत्तांत कथानक के रुप में ऐतिहासिक परम्परा का विशिष्ट अंग थे। साथ ही उन्होंने गाथा नाराशंसी आख्यान, आख्यायिका उपाख्यान के सन्दर्भ में वैदिक एवं पौराणिक इतिहास लेखन पर प्रकाश डाला।

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Date: 18 NOV 2019

Title : Department of Urdu

Lecture by Prof. Shabnam Hameed (Head, Department of Urdu, University of Allahabad)

’’गालिब आज और कल के आईने में’’

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Date: 21 FEB 2019

Title : मातृ भाषा दिवस

मातृ भाषा दिवस

21/02/2019

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Date: 21 FEB 2019

Title : Dept of Ancient History

Special lecture

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Date: 15 FEB 2019

Title : Budget an Analysis 2019-2020

Department of Economics

National Symposium

Budget : An Analysis 2019-2020

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Date: 13 FEB 2019

Title : Symposium on Gender Discrimination: Issues and Challenges

Symposium on

Gender Discrimination: Issues and Challenges

organised by

Department of English and Women Cell

13 February 2019

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Date: 01 FEB 2019

Title : One Day National Symposium on “Vichar Kumbh”

Damodardas Khanna Faculty of Arts, S.S.Khanna Girls’ Degree College, Prayagraj organized a One Day National Symposium under CPE Phase II Scheme on the topic “Vichar Kumbh” on 1st of February, 2019.

The chief guest of the event was Prof. Rajaram Yadav, Vice Chancellor, V.B.S Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, and presided over by Prof. K.N. Singh, Vice Chancellor, U.P. Rajshree Tandon Open University, Prayagraj.

The special invitee of the event was Ms. Tomoka Mushiga from Japan who is presently pursuing her research from Department of Ancient History, Culture and Archeology, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj.

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Date: 25 JAN 2019

Title : Dept. of Economics

Lecture on GST

organised by

Dept. of Economics

25 Jan 2019

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Date: 19 JAN 2019

Title : हिन्दी विभाग

हिन्दी विभाग

विशेष व्याख्यान

19.01.2019

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Date: 19 JAN 2019

Title : व्यक्तित्व और सामाजिक विकास में दर्शनशास्त्र कितना उपयोगी

दर्शनशास्त्र विभाग

19/01/2019

“व्यक्तित्व और सामाजिक विकास में दर्शनशास्त्र कितना उपयोगी”

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Date: 12 JAN 2019

Title : Educational Tour

Educational Tour

Allahabad Museum

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Date: 07 DEC 2018

Title : Department of Philosophy

Department of Philosophy

‘Nature of Philosophy and its relevance’

Lecture by Professor S.K. Seth

07 Dec. 2018

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Date: 01 NOV 2018

Title : Inter-Collegiate debate competition

Department of Sociology

Inter-Collegiate debate competition

"Modernity is responsible for the diminution of Indian culture"

(November 01, 2018)

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Date: 30 OCT 2018

Title : Workshop on "e-PG Pathshala"

Department of Education

Workshop on “e-PG Pathshala”

Prof. Dhananjay Yadav

(Head, Department of Education; University of Allahabad)

(October 30, 2018)

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Date: 11 OCT 2018

Title : Kathanayak Munshi Premchand ki kahaniyo ka Manchan

Department of Hindi

Kathanayak Munshi Premchand ki kahaniyo ka Manchan

11.10.2018

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Date: 09 OCT 2018

Title : अर्न्तमहाविद्यालयीय वाद-विवाद प्रतियोगिता

मध्यकालीन इतिहास विभाग

अर्न्तमहाविद्यालयीय वाद-विवाद प्रतियोगिता

विषय : "महात्मा गॉधी के आर्थिक विचार-वर्तमान में प्रासंगिक अथवा अप्रासंगिक?"

09.10.2018

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Date: 27 SEP 2018

Title : उर्दू मे रोज़गार के अवसर

उर्दू विभाग

विषयः उर्दू मे रोज़गार के अवसर

27 September 2018

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Date: 19 SEP 2018

Title : परिचर्चा: "कार्यालयी हिन्दीः कार्यान्वयन और चुनौतियाँ"

हिन्दी विभाग

परिचर्चा: “कार्यालयी हिन्दीः कार्यान्वयन और चुनौतियाँ“

19.09.2018

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Date: 19 SEP 2018

Title : Special Lecture

Department of Sanskrit

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Date: 18 SEP 2018

Title : Form and Content of literary criticism

Department of English

Form and Content of literary criticism

18.09.2018

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Date: 04 SEP 2018

Title : संगोष्ठी:"महात्मा गॉधी और जन आंदोलन"

महात्मा गॉधी की 150वीं जयन्ती के उपलक्ष्य में मध्यकालीन इतिहास विभाग, एस.एस.खन्ना महिला महाविद्यालय द्वारा दिनांक 4 सितम्बर 2018 को "महात्मा गॉधी और जन आंदोलन" विषय पर विशेष व्याख्यान आयोजित किया गया।

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Syllabus

1 Ancient History B.A. Click To Download
2 Hindi BA Click To Download
3 Geography BA/B.Sc Click To Download
4 English MA Click To Download
5 Ancient History MA Click To Download
6 Education BA Click To Download
7 Education MA Click To Download
8 Economics BA Click To Download
9 English BA Click To Download
10 Medieval and Modern History BA Click To Download
11 Medieval and Modern History MA Click To Download
12 Painting BA Click To Download
13 Painting MA Click To Download
14 Hindi MA Click To Download
15 Political Science BA Click To Download
16 Psychology BA Click To Download
17 Sanskrit BA Click To Download
18 Philosophy BA Click To Download
19 Sociology BA Click To Download
20 Music BA Click To Download
21 Office Management & Secretarial Practices BA Click To Download
22 Urdu BA Click To Download
23 Urdu MA Click To Download

Model Question Paper

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Faculty of Arts Model Question Paper

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