The Department of As&H plays a unique and distinctive role in an institute where the ethos of science and technology prevails. It is believed that engineering and science are, by their very nature, humanistic and socially derived enterprises. Hence a complete science and technology education must include Pure and Applied sciences where the students unite application of scientific principles along with human, moral and social understanding.

The Department of Humanities and Sciences is multidisciplinary in its orientation. The Department's essentially inter-disciplinary nature is its distinguishing factor. Coupled with its multidisciplinary background, the Department boasts of a highly diverse and experienced faculty members. It has an excellent student-teacher ratio, providing opportunities for academically intense learning. This allows students to develop an appreciation for a very diverse set of fields.

Whatever their individual branches of scholarship, it is the concern of all faculties teaching in these areas to continue to meet and to extend the intellectual challenges projected in the charter. At the same time, we remain conscious of our especial obligations to address the social needs of India.

Original contributions to research and to ongoing debates in ethics, cultural anthropology, cognition, ideology, development policy, organizational behavior and economic activity and indeed to the nature of theory itself are crucial within a Department like ours.