Department Of Geography

A renowned geographer Dudley Stamp remarked on his visit to India that "Aligarh (Dept of geography) is the Mecca of Indian geography" in view of the notable contributions made by the department in the field of teaching and research.

Department of GEOGRAPHY AMU ALIGARH is the best geography department in India and one of the best in the world. I studied here from 1992 to 1997.I topped in the M.A exam.1997 and I was awarded the prestigious UNIVERSITY GOLD MEDAL.

Oldest Geography department of india, departmental library contains best books of geography.

Excellent Dept with experienced and erudite faculties. I have done my master's from this Dept. Now I'm working as Research Scholar (JRF) at IIT Indore with the collaboration of iirs ISRO. Thanks to the dept. faculties, especially Dr. Mashkoor Sir, and my colleagues for their support and help.

This is a beautiful and a well maintained department, it is on the left side of the library right infront of the football and basketball field.

It has parking space and a modern department.

Nyc place to chill out
nice scenery

The Department of Geography was established in 1924 to carryout undergraduate courses in Geography. Gradually postgraduate courses were introduced and the first batch passed out in 1931. Since then the research activities was incepted that enabled to the Department to produce first Doctoral research work in 1941.

The late Prof. Sir L. Dudley Stamp, a renowned Geographer, remarked on his visit to India that, Aligarh is the Mecca of Indian Geography-- in view of the notable contributions made by the Department in the field of teaching and research.

Main Areas of Academic Thrust:

*Agricultural Geography, *Population Geography, *Environmental Geography, *Regional Development and Planning, *Social & Cultural Geography, *Urban Geography, *Settlement Geography, *Resource Development and Management, *Marketing Geography, *Health Geography, *Industrial Geography

The main thrust area of the Department is in the field of Agriculture Geography, Population Geography and Environmental Geography as identified by the UGC and sanctioned UGC-SAP-DRS-III Programme (April 2015 - March 2020). Out of significance contribution made by the department in the field of teaching and research during the last five years the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, New Delhi was pleased to sanctioned FIST Programme from April 2019 - March 2024. In order to carry out the academic programme some of the important organs of the department functions un-interruptly to strengthen teaching and research.

The A.M.U. Geographical Society is one of the vibrant organ which was formed on 27th March 1925 to inculcate the interest of geographical understanding and to develop skills and aptitude among the students through organizing different academic programme and extracurricular activities. In order to make more functionary the society contain some office bearers i.e., President, Vice- President, Hony. Secretary and Executive Members to ensure its vibrancy and sustained functionary. Under the ages of AMU Geographical Society The Geographer a refereed research journal of (ISSN: 0072-0909) of International repute gets published bi-annual (Jan & July). The first issue came out in 1926. Since then, it is continued to publish regularly. The detailed information about the journal is available on thegeographer.in .
The Department also has a Geographical Research Group to intensify research, to inculcate interest and to develop observational skills in Geography. The meetings are held regularly every fortnight. Teachers and students participate in these meetings. It is a forum for research students to present their doctoral works, the research papers and their findings and to defend it. Thorough discussions also take place.

The Departmental library contains one of the richest collections of Books and Journals of Geography. At present it has nearly 30,220 Books (reference and Texts Books) and 39 Journals (26 International and 13 national journals).

The Department has a fully equipped Cartography Lab, Computer Lab, GIS Lab. and a Survey Lab...

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