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Professor Bhupesh Chandra Mukherjee, a former teacher of History of the then Presidency College, Kolkata, joined as the first vice chancellor on 29 September 1981.
The foundation stone of the main campus (at Tantigaria mouza of Midnapore Sadar Town for post graduate teaching and central administration) was laid on 18 July 1983 by the Hon’ble Chancellor of the university and governor of West Bengal, B.D. Pande.
983-Edn (U), dated Calcutta 23 May] issued by the State Government, 30 colleges of the District of Midnapore were affiliated to the Vidyasagar University with effect from 1 June 1985.
On 15 January 1986, it was inaugurated by Shri Jyoti Basu, the then chief minister of West Bengal.
The Department of History started functioning as a full fledged Post Graduate Department in 1989, with two whole-time teachers and 80 students.
The U.G.C. accorded recognition to the university in terms of Section 12B of the U.G.C. Act, on 1 March 1990.
A short history of Vidyasagar University is written by a faculty of the Anthropology Department in Bengali which was published in January 2001 from Kolkata.
‘Vidyasagar University Journal of History’ is a peer-reviewed and UGC - CARE listed journal, which is being published regularly since 2012.
After three decades of its establishment in the Seventh Executive Council meeting held on 04.05.2012 based on the proposal of a professor of Anthropology a committee was formed to honour the founder of the university.
M. Phil course has been started from 2015.
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