Prof. Rudrangshu Mukherjee

Rudrangshu Mukherjee is the Chancellor and Professor of History at Ashoka University of which he was also the Founding Vice Chancellor. He studied History as an undergraduate at Presidency College, Calcutta and completed his MA in History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He went up as an Inlaks Scholar to St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and was awarded a D.Phil in Modern History by the University of Oxford. He was Reader in the History department of Calcutta University. He held visiting appointments at Princeton University, Manchester University and University of California, Santa Cruz. He was also the Editor, Editorial Pages, The Telegraph. He has written five books on the Revolt of 1857 of which the most notable is Awadh in Revolt: A Study of Popular Resistance. A sixth, A Begum and a Rani: Hazrat Mahal and Lakshmibai in the 1857 Uprising was published in July 2021. His last three books are Nehru&Bose: Parallel Lives, Twilight Falls on Liberalism and Nehru: A Short Introduction. His most recent books are Tagore & Gandhi: Walking Alone, Walking Together, and (with Shobita Punja and Toby Sinclair) A New History of India.