Rila Mukherjee is a historian and author. She is a professor at the University of Hyderabad. She is a scholar of

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studies.

Early life and education

Mukherjee's father, Ramkrishna Mukherjee, and mother, Prabhati Mukherjee, were academics. Mukherjee completed her PhD from the

School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (, EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The school awards Master and PhD degrees alone and conjo ...

Career

Mukherjee taught history at

Jadavpur University Jadavpur University ( abbr. JU) is a public state funded research university with its main campus located at Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was established on 25 July in 1906 as ''Bengal Technical Institute'' and was converted into ...

from 1992 to 2007. She joined the

University of Hyderabad The University of Hyderabad (UoH) is a prestigious public central research university located in Gachibowli, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Established in 1974, this mostly residential campus has more than 5,000 students and 400 faculty, from ...

in 2007. She is a fellow of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. She is a staff member of the

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. She is the editor of the '' Asian Review of World Histories'' published by the Asian Association of World Historians.

Bibliography

* India in the Indian Ocean World: From the Earliest Times to 1800 CE * Indian Ocean Histories * From Mountain Fastness to Coastal Kingdoms * Oceans Connect: Reflections on Water Worlds across Time and Space (Issues in History) * Living with Water: Peoples, Lives and Livelihoods in Asia and Beyond * Rethinking Connectivity: Region, Place and Space in Asia (Issues in History) * Beyond National Frames (Issues in History) * Subversive Sovereigns Across the Seas Indian Ocean Ports of Trade From Early Historic Times to Late Colonialism * Vanguards of Globalization (Issues in History) * Pelagic Passageways: The Northern Bay of Bengal Before Colonialism * Networks in the First Global Age: 1400-1800 published by the

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. * Cross-Cultural Networking in the Eastern Indian Ocean Realm, c. 100-1800 * Europe Transformed: 1350-1789 * Strange Riches: Bengal in the Mercantile Map of South Asia * Locality, History, Memory: The Making of the Citizen in South Asia (Pasts and Futures: Readings in a Contemporary World)

References

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