Brief CV
Name:

ADITYA MUKHERJEE
E-mail: mriduladitya@gmail.com

Current Position:
1. Professor of Contemporary Indian History, (Till Sept 2018), Centrefor Historical Studies, JNU, New Delhi
2.
Editor of the Series, ‘Sage Series in Modern Indian History’,
SAGE publications, (18 monographs already published.)3.
Member, Scientific Committee, International Review ofSociology, Rome, since 20114.
Regional Editor, International Journal of Asian Studies, Tokyo(Cambridge University Press), since 2009.
5.
Editor, Studies in History, journal published by Sage for theCentre for Historical Studies, JNU, since 2014
Awards/Honours:
1. Visiting Professor at Duke University, U.S.A., 1986.
2. Awarded the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Fellowship at the University of Tokyo, March to June 1996.
3. Director, Academic Staff College, JNU, New Delhi, 1997-2004.
4. Awarded the Japan Foundation Fellowship for one year at the Institute ofOriental Culture, University of Tokyo, March 1999 to March 2000.
5. Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Lancaster University, UK,
2007.
6. Fellow at Institute of Advanced Study, Nantes, France, April-June, 2010.
7. Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2012.
8. Visiting Professor to La Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy MayAugust 2013
9. Chairperson, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, New Delhi, 2004-6.
10. Director, Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study, Jawaharlal Nehru
University (JNU) 2006-2012.
11. President, Indian History Congress, (Modern India), 2007.
12. Editor, Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, 2009-2011.
13. Member, Indian Council for Historical Research, 2009-2015.
14. Appointed Member of the Board of Trustees of the India Brand Equity
Foundation (IBEF) by the Government of India, since 2012.
15. Dean, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2013-2015.
16. Member, Executive Council of the Indian History Congress 2013-2016.
PUBLICATIONS:Books
1. India's Struggle for Independence, Viking, 1988, Penguin, 1989, (coauthor), Over 80 reprints till 2016. Translated into several languages.
3. Imperialism, Nationalism and the Making of the Indian Capitalist Class
1927-1947, Sage, 2002.
4. Communalisation of Education, The History Textbook Controversy, editor(with Mridula Mukherjee), Delhi Historians’ Group, 2002.
5. History in the New NCERT Text Books: A Report and an Index of Errors,(with Irfan Habib and Suvira Jaiswal), Indian History Congress, 2003.

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India Since Independence, (Co Author), Penguin, 2008. More than 35
reprints till 2016.
7. RSS, School Texts and The Murder of Mahatma Gandhi: The Hindu
Communal Project, (co-author), Sage, 2008.
8. A Centenary History of the Indian National Congress, 1964-1984, Vol. V(editor with Introduction and a chapter), Academic Publishers, New Delhi,
2011.
9. Congress and the Making of the Indian Nation, 2 Volumes, co-editor,
Academic Publishers, New Delhi, 2011.
Articles and Chapters in books: (Last Eight Years)
1 “Empire: How Colonial India Made Modern Britain”, Economic andPolitical Weekly, Vol. XLV, No. 50, 11 Dec. 2010.
2 “The return of the Colonial in Indian Economic History: The Last Phaseof Colonialism in India”, Presidential Address, Modern India, Proceedingsof the Indian History Congress, New Delhi, 2007, reprinted in Social
Scientist,Vol.36, Nos. 3-and 4-5, Mar.- April and May –June 2008 .
3 “Imperialism and Capitalism” in Medha M. Kudiasya, ed., The Oxford
India Anthology of Business History, OUP, New Delhi, 2011.
4 “The Colonial Experience of India and Indonesia: Some Comparisons”, inSatish Chandra and Baladas Ghosal ed., India and South East Asia:
Cultural Economic and Strategic Linkages, Gyan, New Delhi, 2011.
5 “Economic Challenges 1964-84: From Increased Dirigisme to Beginningsof Liberalisation” in Aditya Mukherjee, ed., A Centenary History of theIndian National Congress,, Academic Publishers, 2011.
6 “Colonial ‘Industrialisation’: The Indian Experience in the TwentiethCentury”, International Journal of South Asian Studies, 4, 2011.
7 “Introduction” to Bipan Chandra, The Making of Modern India: FromMarx to Gandhi, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2012.
8 “Colonial Globalisation to Postcolonial Globalisation: Nonalignment andSouth-South Cooperation,” Austral: Brazilian Journal of Strategy &International Relations, v.1, n.2, Jul-Dec 2012, p.251-272.
9 “Challenges to the Social Sciences in the 21st Century”, Economic andPolitical Weekly, Vol.XLVIII, No. 37, 14 September 2013.
10 “Colonialism and the Emergence of the ‘Great Divergence’: How thePeriphery Made the Centre” in D.N. Jha ed., The Evolution of a Nation,
Pre colonial to Post Colonial: Essays in Memory of R.S. Sharma,Manohar, 2014.
11 “Decolonisation or the Last Phase of Colonialism?” in Thierry Di
Costanzo and Guillaume Ducoeur, eds., Decolonisation and the Strugglefor National Liberation in India(1909-1971), Peter Lang International
Academic Publishers, Frankfurt, 2014.
12 “Colonialism and India’s Development Experience” in Vyjayanti
Raghavan and R. Mahalakshmi, ed., Colonisation: A Comparative Studyof India and Korea, Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2015.
13 “Nehru’s Legacy: Inclusive Democracy and People’s Empowerment,”
Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. L, No. 16, 18 April 2015.
14 “The Indian Economy in the Nehru Era”, in Nayantara Sahgal, ed.,
Nehru’s India, Speaking Tiger, New Delhi, 2016.
15 "Economic Impact of Colonialism in India and Indonesia" in Cmde RajvirSingh, Cdr AK Desai, Lt Cdr Kalesh Mohanan eds., Regional Instabilities2

in Indian Ocean Rim States –Legacy of Maritime Conquests andColonisation, Dilli Seminar Series 2016, Indian Naval Academy,Ezhimala, Kannur, 2016, pp.119-130.
16 “Indira Gandhi: Shaping the Indian Economy” in Anand Sharma, ed.,Indira’s India: A Centennial Tribute, Academic Publishers, 2017.
17 “Indian Economic History: The Colonial Perspective Masquerading as
Revisionist History” in Arun Bandopadhyay and Sanjukta Dasgupta ed.,In Quest of the Historian’s Craft, Essays in Honour of Professor B. B.
Chaudhiri, Manohar, 2017.
18 “India and the 19th Century World Economy” in Shigeru Akita, ed.
Volume in Japanese, 2018 reprinted in Sebastian Joseph, ed., PresentingHistories, Kerala, 2018.
Lectures and papers read Outside India:
Delivered about 70 lectures and seminars all over the world outside India.

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