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]
Sumita Mukherjee | |
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| Occupation | Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
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| Discipline | Historian |
| Sub-discipline | South Asian identity, Indian female suffrage campaigners |
| Institutions | University of Bristol |
| Main interests | South Asian transnational movement in the 19th and 20th centuries |
| Website | sumitamukherjee |
Her work focuses primarily on the transnational mobility of South Asian people during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Career
editMukherjee has been awarded a BA degree from Durham University as well as a MSt and PhD from University of Oxford.[1] 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.[1]
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]
Bibliography
edit- Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities: The England-Returned, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199484218
- Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks, Routledge ISBN 9780415502047
- (co-edited with Sadia Zulfiqar) Islam and the West: A Love Story?, Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN 978-1-4438-7445-8
- (co-edited with Rehana Ahmed) South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858-1947, Bloomsbury, ISBN 9781441117564
- (co-edited with Ruvani Ranasinha, with Rehana Ahmed, Florian Stadtler) South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870-1950, Manchester University Press, ISBN 978-0-7190-8514-7
References
edit- ^ a b c "Sumita Mukherjee". University of Bristol. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
- ^ "Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities: The England-returned". CRC Press. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
- ^ Mukherjee, Sumita (24 May 2018). Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-948421-8.
- ^ "The untold story of the Indian suffragettes". Times Higher Education (THE). 23 May 2023. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ "Sumita Mukherjee". University of Bristol. Retrieved 20 August 2024.