Mridula Mukherjee

Mridula Mukherjee was professor of modern Indian history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, where she taught over four decades. She has served as Director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and was elected General President of the Indian History Congress (2026) and was visiting scholar/fellow at Duke University, USA, Lancaster University, UK, University of Rome, University of Tokyo and Institute of Advanced Study at Nantes (France) Her scholarship spans India’s national movement, agrarian history, peasant movements and Gandhian politics. Her books include Peasants in India’s Non-Violent Revolution: Practice and Theory and Colonializing Agriculture: The Myth of Punjab Exceptionalism. She is also a co-author of the widely read India’s Struggle for Independence, India Since Independence and India’s Descent into Communal Fascism.