Rudrangshu Mukherjee Explained

Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Alma Mater:Oxford University
Occupation:Historian
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Term End1:2017
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Rudrangshu Mukherjee is a historian and author of several history books. He was formerly the Opinions Editor for The Telegraph newspaper, Kolkata and the Chancellor for Ashoka University, where he also serves as Professor of History.[1] He was the founding Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka when the University began in 2014 and was succeeded in 2017 by Pratap Bhanu Mehta.[2]

Academics

He studied at Calcutta Boys' School, Presidency College, Kolkata, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

His 1980 D.Phil thesis at the University of Oxford was titled "The rebellion in Awadh, 1857-1858: a study in popular resistance".[3] He has revisited his view of the revolt from the native perspective in books including Awadh in Revolt 1857-58: A Study of Popular Resistance (Delhi, 1984, repr. 2002), Spectre of Violence: The 1857 Kanpur Massacres (Delhi, 1988), and Mangal Pandey: Brave Martyr or Accidental Hero? (Penguin India).[4]

Career

He has taught history at the University of Calcutta and held visiting appointments at Princeton University, the University of Manchester, the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Young India Fellowship, New Delhi. At the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), which he had joined as a Junior Research Fellow in 1975, he was involved in issues concerning the ascendancy of the North in the production of knowledge.[3] He has edited The Penguin Gandhi Reader (Delhi, 1993) and is the author of the Art of Bengal: A Vision Defined, 1955-75 (Kolkata, 2003), and co-edited Trade and Politics and the Indian Ocean World: Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta (Delhi, 1998).

He has 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 and Bose.

He has also worked on the history of the leftist movement in India.[5] After the 2007 Nandigram episode, he was among those leftist intellectuals in Kolkata who protested the violent policies of the left.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Faculty/Staff Ashoka University. University. Ashoka. Ashoka University. en. 2017-10-01.
  2. Web site: Rudrangshu Mukherjee The DSC Prize for South Asian LiteratureThe DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. dscprize.com. 2019-07-23.
  3. News: Sephis e-magazine: Partha Chatterjee interview . Rudrangshu Mukherjee . South-south Exchange programme for research on the history of development . 1 . 1 . Sep 2004 . 2007-12-17.
  4. . The cover illustration of one book was drawn by Satyajit Ray. News: Clio Is Not For Worship:- History is best freed from nation-building . Rudrangshu Mukherjee . The Telegraph . https://web.archive.org/web/20051212221130/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050904/asp/opinion/story_5188782.asp . dead . 12 December 2005 . 2005-09-04 . 2007-12-18.
  5. News: Rudrangshu Mukherjee . www.india-seminar.com/ Seminar, New Delhi, ed. Raj and Romesh Thapar] . A Mandate For Change: A symposium on the 2004 general elections . July 2004 .
  6. News: Kiss of Death - The CPI(M)'s use of violence in Nandigram isn't surprising . Rudranghshu Mukherjee . . https://web.archive.org/web/20080208083522/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070110/asp/opinion/story_7238853.asp . dead . 8 February 2008 . 2007-01-10 . 2007-12-19 . (part of a three-article series)