Rudrangshu Mukherjee is a historian and author of several history books. He was formerly the Opinions Editor for ''

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'' newspaper,

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and the Chancellor for

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, where he also serves as Professor of History. He was the founding Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka when the University began in 2014 and was succeeded in 2017 by Pratap Bhanu Mehta.

Academics

He studied at

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Presidency College, Kolkata Presidency University, Kolkata (formerly known as Presidency College, Kolkata) is a second major public state aided research university located in College Street, Kolkata. Considered as one of best colleges when Presidency College was affili ...

Jawaharlal Nehru University Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is a public major research university located in New Delhi, India. It was established in 1969 and named after Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. The university is known for leading faculties and r ...

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, and

St Edmund Hall, Oxford St Edmund Hall (sometimes known as The Hall or informally as Teddy Hall) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. The college claims to be "the oldest surviving academic society to house and educate undergraduates in any university ...

. His 1980

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thesis at the University of Oxford was titled "The rebellion in Awadh, 1857-1858: a study in popular resistance". He has revisited his view of the revolt from the native perspective in books including ''Awadh in Revolt 1857-58: A Study of Popular Resistance'' (Delhi, 1984, repr. 2002), ''Spectre of Violence: The 1857 Kanpur Massacres'' (Delhi, 1988), and ''Mangal Pandey: Brave Martyr or Accidental Hero?'' (Penguin India).

Career

He has taught history at the

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and held visiting appointments at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

, the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

, the

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California syste ...

and the

Young India Fellowship Ashoka University is a philanthropy-driven private university located in the National Capital Region (NCR), India, focusing on a liberal education in the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and the Sciences. The university is on a mission to bu ...

, New Delhi. At the

Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) is a social science and humanities research and teaching institute in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. History Established in 1973 jointly by the Indian Council of Social Science Research and ...

(CSSSC), which he had joined as a

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in 1975, he was involved in issues concerning the ascendancy of the North in the production of knowledge. He has edited ''The Penguin Gandhi Reader'' (Delhi, 1993) and is the author of the ''Art of Bengal: A Vision Defined, 1955-75'' (Kolkata, 2003), and co-edited ''Trade and Politics and the Indian Ocean World: Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta'' (Delhi, 1998). He has authored and edited several books on other themes, including ''The Penguin Gandhi Reader, Trade and Politics and, the Indian Ocean World: Essays in Honour of Ashin Das Gupta, Remembered Childhood: Essays in Honour of Andre Beteille, New Delhi: The Making of a Capital and Great Speeches of Modern India.'' His latest book is Nehru and Bose''.'' He has also worked on the history of the leftist movement in India. After the 2007

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episode, he was among those leftist intellectuals in Kolkata who protested the violent policies of the left. (part of a three-article series)

References

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