Mridula Mukherjee is an Indian historian known for her work on the role of peasants in the Indian independence movement.
10 Facts About Mridula Mukherjee
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Mridula Mukherjee is an ex-chairperson of the Centre for Historical Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and former director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.
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Mridula Mukherjee's sister, Sucheta Mahajan, is a professor of Indian history at JNU, and her brother is Ajay Mahajan.
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Mridula Mukherjee graduated from Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi.
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Mridula Mukherjee joined Jawaharlal Nehru University as a post-graduate student in 1971, from where she obtained a PhD degree.
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In 1972, while working on her doctoral thesis, Mridula Mukherjee was hired by the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, as a faculty member, from where she retired as a professor of history.
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Mridula Mukherjee was a chairperson of the Centre as well.
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Mridula Mukherjee argued that despite extensive irrigation works, colonialisation caused agricultural involution, with the number of workers per unit area rising and production dropping.
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Mridula Mukherjee analysed peasant movements in the erstwhile princely states of the Punjab across the pre- and post-1947 periods.
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Mridula Mukherjee herself pointed out that under her tenure, the NMML had completed a ten-volume publication of the selected works of Jayaprakash Narayan, besides initiating a digitisation project.