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Rudrangshu Mukherjee | |
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| Alma mater | Oxford University |
| Occupation | Historian |
| 1st Vice Chancellor ofAshoka University | |
| In office 2014–2017 | |
| Succeeded by | Prof.Pratap Bhanu Mehta |
| Chancellor ofAshoka University | |
| Assumed office 2017 | |
Rudrangshu Mukherjee is a historian and author of several history books. He was formerly the Opinions Editor forThe Telegraph newspaper,Kolkata and the Chancellor forAshoka University, where he also serves as Professor of History.[1] He was the founding Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka when the University began in 2014 and was succeeded in 2017 byPratap Bhanu Mehta.[2]
He studied atCalcutta Boys' School,Presidency College, Kolkata,Jawaharlal Nehru University,New Delhi, andSt Edmund Hall, Oxford.[citation needed]
His 1980D.Phil thesis at the University of Oxford was titled "The rebellion in Awadh, 1857-1858: a study in popular resistance".[3] He has revisited his view of the revolt from the native perspective in books includingAwadh in Revolt 1857-58: A Study of Popular Resistance (Delhi, 1984, repr. 2002),Spectre of Violence: The 1857 Kanpur Massacres (Delhi, 1988), andMangal Pandey: Brave Martyr or Accidental Hero? (Penguin India).[4]
He has taught history at theUniversity of Calcutta and held visiting appointments atPrinceton University, theUniversity of Manchester, theUniversity of California, Santa Cruz and theYoung India Fellowship, New Delhi. At theCentre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), which he had joined as aJunior Research Fellow in 1975, he was involved in issues concerning the ascendancy of the North in the production of knowledge.[3] He has editedThe Penguin Gandhi Reader (Delhi, 1993) and is the author of theArt of Bengal: A Vision Defined, 1955-75 (Kolkata, 2003), and co-editedTrade 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, includingThe 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 isNehru and Bose.[1]
He has also worked on the history of the leftist movement in India.[5]After the 2007Nandigram episode, he was among those leftist intellectuals in Kolkata who protested the violent policies of the left.[6]
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| Preceded by New title | Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka University 2014-2017 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by New title | Chancellor of Ashoka University since 2017 | Succeeded by incumbent |
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