Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Rudrangshu Mukherjee is the Chancellor and a Professor of History at Ashoka University. He is a renowned historian and author, and was most recently the Editor of the Editorial Pages, at The Telegraph, Kolkata.
Professor Mukherjee has taught history at the University of Calcutta and held visiting appointments at Princeton University, the University of Manchester and, the University of California, Santa Cruz. Professor Mukherjee studied at the Calcutta Boys' School, Presidency College, Kolkata, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and , St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He was awarded a D.Phil in Modern History by the University of Oxford in 1981.
Professor Mukherjee is internationally acclaimed as a historian of the revolt of 1857 in India. His first book Awadh in Revolt, 1857-58: A Study of Popular Resistance has become a standard reference on the subject. He has looked at the 1857 rebellion in four other books: Spectre of Violence: The 1857 Kanpur Massacres, Mangal Pandey: Brave Martyr or Accidental Hero?, Dateline 1857: Revolt against the Raj and The Year of Blood: Essays on 1857.
He has also authored and edited several books on other themes, including The Penguin Gandhi Reader, Trade and Politics and, the Indian Ocean World: Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta, Remembered Childhood: Essays in Honour of Andre Beteille, New Delhi: The Making of a Capital and Great Speeches of Modern India. His latest book is Nehru & Bose: Parallel Lives.
A selected list of his published books include:
Twilight falls on Liberalism
Nehru and Bose: Parallel Lives
The Year of blood: Essays on the Revolt of 1857
1857: The Revolt against the Raj
Mangal Pandey: Brave Martyr Or Accidental Hero?
Awadh in Revolt: 1857-1858
A selected list of his published works include:
`Trade and Empire in Awadh, 1765-1804,’’ Past and Present, No 94, Feb., 1982.
``Debate: Early British Imeprialism in India’’ Past and Present, No 106, Feb.1985
`Satan let loose upon earth’ : The Kanpur Massacres in India in the Revolt of 1857, Past and Present, No 128, Aug., 1990.
``Debate: The Kanpur Massacres in India in the revolt of 1857’’ Past and Present, No 142, Feb 1994.
``The Derozio Affair: An Annal of Early Calcutta’’’, Economic and Political Weekly, September, 9. 2017.
``The Azamgarh Proclamations and Some Questions on the Revolt of 1857 in the North Western Provinces’’ in Essays in Honour of Professor S.C.Sarkar (Delhi, 1976) reprinted in Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Year of Blood: Essays on 1857. (Delhi, 2014).
``Two Responses to 1857 in the Centenary Year’’ Economic and Political Weekly, June 14, 2008 reprinted in Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Year of Blood: Essays on 1857.
``Gandhi’s Swaraj’’ in Economic and Political Weekly, December 12, 2009.
``Between Clio and Party: Obituary of Eric Hobsbawm’’, The Telegraph, Oct 9, 2012.
``Illusion of an Epoch: Obituary of Victor Kiernan’’, The Telegraph, February 22, 2009.
``Primitive Loyalist: Review of Hobsbawm’s memoirs Interesting Times ‘’, The Telegraph, Oct 20, 2002.
``Return of the Native: Review of The Princely Impostor by Partha Chatterjee, The Telegraph, May 16, 2002.
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