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 at Presidency College, Calcutta and completed his MA in History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He went as an Inlaks Scholar to St Edmund Hall, Oxford and was awarded a DPhil 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 six books on the Revolt of 1857 of which the most notable is Awadh in Revolt 1857-58: A Study of Popular Resistance and of which the latest is A Begum and a Rani: Hazrat Mahal and Lakshmibai in 1857. His other books include Nehru & Bose: Parallel Lives, Twilight Falls on Liberalism, Nehru: A Short Introduction and Tagore & Gandhi: Walking Alone, Walking Together. He has also co-authored A New History of India. He is the editor of The Penguin Gandhi Reader, Great Speeches of Modern India, The Best of Tagore and other volumes.