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A renowned historian and author, Rudrangshu Mukherjee has taught History at the University of Calcutta and held visiting appointments at Princeton University, University of Manchester and University of California, Santa Cruz. He was the Editor of the Editorial Pages, at聽The Telegraph, Kolkata. He studied at 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.

Mukherjee is internationally acclaimed as a historian of the revolt of 1857 in India. His first book,聽Awadh in Revolt, 1857-58: A Study of Popular Resistance聽(1984) 聽has become a standard reference on the subject. He has looked at the 1857 rebellion in four other books:聽Spectre of Violence: The 1857 Kanpur Massacres聽(1998),听Mangal Pandey: Brave Martyr or Accidental Hero?听(2005),听Dateline 1857: Revolt against the Raj聽(2008)听补苍诲听The Year of Blood: Essays on 1857听(2014).

He has also authored and edited several books on other themes, including聽The Penguin Gandhi Reader听(1993),聽Politics and Trade in the Indian Ocean World: Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta聽(1999),听Remembered Childhood: Essays in Honour of Andre Beteille听(2010),听New Delhi: The Making of a Capital听(2009),听Great Speeches of Modern India聽(2011),听Nehru & Bose: Parallel Lives聽(2014),聽Twilight Falls on Liberalism聽(2018), Oxford India Short Introduction: Jawaharlal Nehru (2018), Changing India, Vol. V, Part I : The Prime Minister Speaks (2019), Changing India, Vol. V, Part II : The Prime Minister Speaks (2019), Tagore and Gandhi : Walking Alone, Walking Together (2021), A Begum and a Rani : Hazrat Mahal and Lakshmibai in 1857 (2021), The Best of Tagore (2023) and A New History of India : From its Origins to the Twenty-First Century (2023).聽