NLS Comes to Hyderabad | Open House | NLS BA (Hons) Programme

We invite curious and interested students, parents, schools, and career counsellors, to the open house on the NLS BA (Hons) programme at Hyderabad on Saturday, December 13, 2o25.

This conversation will revolve around BA education and practice, focussing on the multidisciplinary curriculum and pedagogy of what NLS has to offer in this programme. The session will be hosted from 11 am to 1 pm. It is intended to guide students in their Class XI and XII in making an informed decision about their higher education journey.

The open house will be conducted by our faculty member Dr. Parashar Kulkarni, Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Inclusion (CSSI).

Kindly register ahead for the open house by filling out this form. 

About the NLS BA (Hons) Programme

NLSIU pioneered and developed an integrated 5-year BA LLB (Hons.) degree that transformed Indian legal education. Several NLS graduates have pursued further degrees in humanities, social sciences, and business and then embarked on very successful careers in these fields.

As NLSIU develops into a multi-disciplinary university, in line with national and state education policies, the NLS BA (Hons.) programme draws on 35 years of experience in offering the integrated 5-year BA LLB (Hons.) programme. The NLS BA (Hons.) programme curriculum has been carefully designed by faculty teams and approved by the Governing Bodies in 2024 after extensive stakeholder consultations with eminent academics and practitioners from across the country’s top universities to provide their inputs and advice on the curriculum.

Our faculty come from leading universities within India and beyond. We have faculty strength in the following areas:

• History: Modern South Asia, Urban History, Labour History, Global History, Post-Independent India, Development and Planning, Indian National Movement (19th and 20th century)
• Politics: Western Political Thought, Tagore, Gandhi, Periyar and Indian Political Thought, Political Economy, Urban Politics, Land, Indigeneity, Political Parties, The Indian State and Democracy, Comparative Methods in Political Research
• Sociology and Anthropology: Social Theory, Caste and Tribe, Capitalisms, Development, Land Politics, Cinema and Popular Culture, Religion, Urban Anthropology, Ecology
• Economics: Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Labour Economics, Econometrics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, History of Economic Thought, Game Theory

Our faculty have training in advanced quantitative and qualitative methods which they draw on for teaching and research. They have rich research agendas and publication records across law and the social sciences which will inform classroom teaching and learning.

Read more about the programme.