| Sumita Mukherjee | |
| Occupation: | Professor |
| Alma Mater: | University of Oxford |
| Discipline: | Historian |
| Sub Discipline: | South Asian identity, Indian female suffrage campaigners |
| Workplaces: | University of Bristol |
| Main Interests: | South Asian transnational movement in the 19th and 20th centuries |
Dr Sumita Mukherjee is a historian of British Empire and Indian Subcontinent. She is Professor of History at the University of Bristol.[1] She is the author of Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities: The England-Returned (2010) and Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks (2018).[2] [3]
Her work focuses primarily on the transnational mobility of South Asian people during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Mukherjee has been awarded a BA degree from Durham University as well as a MSt and PhD from University of Oxford. Before teaching at the University of Bristol, she taught at University of Cambridge, De Montfort, Glasgow, King's College London, London School of Economics and Oxford.
Dr. Mukherjee's work was instrumental in the inclusion of Indian suffragettes Sophia Duleep Singh and Lolita Roy on the plinth of the Millicent Fawcett statue in Parliament Square, London.[4] As of 2024, she is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Deputy Editor of the academic journal Women's History Review.[5]