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A distinguished historian of modern India, Professor Mukherjee’s scholarship has powerfully re-centred the role of peasants and agrarian movements in India’s freedom struggle — challenging elite-centric narratives and restoring the agency of those long left at the margins of history.

Professor Mukherjee retired as Professor of Modern Indian History and Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and also served as the Director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. Her leadership in institutions of national importance is matched by the depth and originality of her scholarship.

From her early work on agrarian history to her contributions to widely read volumes like India’s Struggle for Independence and India After Independence, she has illuminated the deep connections between rural resistance, social movements, and the broader project of Indian nationalism.
Prof. Mukherjee has continually shaped the discipline with both intellectual rigor and institutional vision.

In an age of distorted retellings, her work reminds us that the freedom struggle was not just fought in political assemblies, but also in fields, forests, and village gatherings — by countless ordinary Indians whose courage and aspirations changed history.

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