“All the world a stage

And all the men and women merely players:

They have their exits and entrances:

And one man in his time plays many parts.” – William Shakespeare.

The history of Department of English of Berhampore Girls’ College is bright and glorious. Berhampore Girls’ College has kept its step in the Academic world in July, 1946 with 32 students and two teachers of English along with other teachers. The College was affiliated in English up to Honours Standard in 1958. English, a world language and an international language, had got its proper meaning in the hands of Founder Principal Oxford Post Graduate Amiya Rao and her husband B. G. Rao. Their honesty, sincerity, effort, endeavour and scholarly insight of knowledge had inspired Janab Rezaul Karim to enrich and decorate the Department of English. The brilliant star of knowledge, Prof. Janab Rezaul Karim, had spread the fame of Department of English far and wide. The distinguished persons of the University of Calcutta had appeared on the Academic stage of Berhampore Girls’ College to offer him the award of D.Litt. Many men of letters dedicated their lives in order to help the Department to go forward in the journey of academic life. At present 84 students can get the chance of taking Honours in English on the basis of ‘Intake’ capacity determined by the University of Kalyani. The glory of the Department of English has been increased by the affiliation of University of Kalyani for Regular P.G classes from the Academic Session, 2018. The ‘Intake’ capacity of Post graduate programme in English is 50.At present the Department of English is running with Post graduate programme in second and fourth semesters.