He was born in Kolkata, India and educated there, and went on to do further degrees in Oxford and Cambridge. He has taught at Newcastle and Warwick Universities in the U.K., and is the author of the books Crime and Empire (2003) and Postcolonial Environments (2010). Dr Mukherjee is currently working on a number of research projects, including a monograph provisionally titled 'Fevers and Famines: Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire' and with a Warwick Research Collective on 'Aesthetics of Peripheral Modernity'. Dr Mukherjee's other interests and specialisms include contemporary film and media, sports, travel, and popular music.