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Sumita Mukherjee

Sumita Mukherjee
Occupation	Professor
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Academic work
Discipline	Historian
Sub-discipline	South Asian identity, Indian female suffrage campaigners
Institutions	University of Bristol
Main interests	South Asian transnational movement in the 19th and 20th centuries
Website	sumitamukherjee.wordpress.com

DrSumita Mukherjee is a historian of British Empire and Indian Subcontinent. She is Professor of History at the University of Bristol.^[1] She is the author of Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities: The England-Returned (2010) and Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks (2018).^[2][3]

Her work focuses primarily on the transnational mobility of South Asian people during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Career[edit]

Mukherjee has been awarded a BA degree from Durham University as well as a MSt and PhD from University of Oxford.^[1] Before teaching at the University of Bristol, she taught at University of Cambridge, De Montfort, Glasgow, King's College London, London School of Economics and Oxford.^[1]

Dr. Mukherjee's work was instrumental in the inclusion of Indian suffragettes Sophia Duleep Singh and Lolita Roy on the plinth of the Millicent Fawcett statue in Parliament Square, London.^[4]

Bibliography[edit]

• Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities: The England-Returned, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199484218
• Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks, Routledge ISBN 9780415502047
• (co-edited with Sadia Zulfiqar) Islam and the West: A Love Story?, Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN 978-1-4438-7445-8
• (co-edited with Rehana Ahmed) South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858-1947, Bloomsbury, ISBN 9781441117564
• (co-edited with Ruvani Ranasinha, with Rehana Ahmed, Florian Stadtler) South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870-1950, Manchester University Press, ISBN 978-0-7190-8514-7

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