Sumita Mukherjee
Sumita Mukherjee | |
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| Occupation | Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Academic work | |
| 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 |
Dr Sumita Mukherjee is a historian of British Empire and Indian Subcontinent. She is Professor of History at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities: The England-Returned (2010) and Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks (2018).
Her work focuses primarily on the transnational mobility of South Asian people during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Career
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.
Bibliography
- 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