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	==Career==		==Career==
	In 1972, while working on her doctoral thesis, Mukherjee was hired by the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, as a faculty member,<ref name=jnunews/> from where she retired as a professor of history. She was a chairperson of the Centre as well. In 2005, she was appointed as the [[Director (education)\|director]] of the [[Nehru Memorial Museum and Library]], [[New Delhi]].		In 1972, while working on her doctoral thesis, Mukherjee was hired by the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, as a faculty member,<ref name=jnunews/> from where she retired as a professor of history. She was a chairperson of the Centre as well. In 2005, she was appointed the [[Director (education)\|director]] of the [[Nehru Memorial Museum and Library]], [[New Delhi]].

	==Research==		==Research==
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	==Ideology==		==Ideology==
	After Mukherjee was appointed as the director of the [[Nehru Memorial Museum and Library]] (NMML) two letters, written between February 2008 and June 2009 and signed by various academics, including [[Ramchandra Guha]] and [[Sumit Sarkar]] were sent to the NMML's executive council complaining of alleged deterioration in scholarly standards of the centre.<ref name=tel2009/><ref>{{cite news\|newspaper=[[OPEN (Indian magazine)\|Open Magazine]]\|url=http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/art-culture/my-reputation-can-take-mudslinging\|title='My Reputation Can Take Mudslinging'\|last=Jayaram\|first=Rahul\|date=1 August 2009\|access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|newspaper=The Economic Times\|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/saving-the-nehru-memorial-museum-and-library/articleshow/4708254.cms\|title=Saving the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library\|date=27 June 2009\|last1=Advani\|first1=Rukun\|last2=Guha\|first2=Ramachandra\|last3=Kesavan\|first3=Mukul\|last4=Lahiri\|first4=Nayanjot}}</ref>		After Mukherjee was appointed the director of the [[Nehru Memorial Museum and Library]] (NMML) two letters, written between February 2008 and June 2009 and signed by various academics, including [[Ramchandra Guha]] and [[Sumit Sarkar]] were sent to the NMML's executive council complaining of alleged deterioration in scholarly standards of the centre.<ref name=tel2009/><ref>{{cite news\|newspaper=[[OPEN (Indian magazine)\|Open Magazine]]\|url=http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/art-culture/my-reputation-can-take-mudslinging\|title='My Reputation Can Take Mudslinging'\|last=Jayaram\|first=Rahul\|date=1 August 2009\|access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|newspaper=The Economic Times\|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/saving-the-nehru-memorial-museum-and-library/articleshow/4708254.cms\|title=Saving the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library\|date=27 June 2009\|last1=Advani\|first1=Rukun\|last2=Guha\|first2=Ramachandra\|last3=Kesavan\|first3=Mukul\|last4=Lahiri\|first4=Nayanjot}}</ref>

	Supporting Mukherjee, another set of academics, including [[Irfan Habib]] and [[Madhu Kishwar]], wrote to the Prime Minister of India protesting her treatment. Mukherjee herself pointed out that under her tenure, the NMML had completed a ten-volume publication of the selected works of [[Jayaprakash Narayan]], besides initiating a digitisation project.<ref name=tel2009/><ref>{{cite news\|newspaper=The Economic Times\|title=Popularising the values of the Freedom Struggle\|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2009-06-27/news/27637200_1_signature-campaign-ramachandra-guha-fellowship-selection-committee\|date=27 June 2009\|access-date=22 June 2015\|last1=Kishwar\|first1=Madhu\|last2=Sinha\|first2=Shantha\|last3=Dev\|first3=Arjun\|last4=Singh\|first4=Madan Gopal}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]\|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/the-past-clicks-on-in-delhi/article2072191.ece\|last=Tripathi\|first=Shailaja\|date=3 June 2011\|title=The past clicks on in Delhi}}</ref>		Supporting Mukherjee, another set of academics, including [[Irfan Habib]] and [[Madhu Kishwar]], wrote to the Prime Minister of India protesting her treatment. Mukherjee herself pointed out that under her tenure, the NMML had completed a ten-volume publication of the selected works of [[Jayaprakash Narayan]], besides initiating a digitisation project.<ref name=tel2009/><ref>{{cite news\|newspaper=The Economic Times\|title=Popularising the values of the Freedom Struggle\|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2009-06-27/news/27637200_1_signature-campaign-ramachandra-guha-fellowship-selection-committee\|date=27 June 2009\|access-date=22 June 2015\|last1=Kishwar\|first1=Madhu\|last2=Sinha\|first2=Shantha\|last3=Dev\|first3=Arjun\|last4=Singh\|first4=Madan Gopal}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]\|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/the-past-clicks-on-in-delhi/article2072191.ece\|last=Tripathi\|first=Shailaja\|date=3 June 2011\|title=The past clicks on in Delhi}}</ref>

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{{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}}
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| name = Mridula Mukherjee
| birth_date = 1950
| image = Mridula Mukherjee on Foundation Day of National Movement Front.jpg
| caption = Mukherjee on Foundation Day of National Movement Front at JNU
| birth_place = New Delhi, [[India]]
| spouse = [[Aditya Mukherjee]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| alma_mater = [[Delhi University]] ([[B.A.]])<br>[[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] ([[M.A.]], [[Ph.D.]])
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'''Mridula Mukherjee''' (née Mahajan) is an [[Indian people|Indian]] [[historian]] known for her work on the role of peasants in the [[Indian independence movement]].

==Early life and education==
Mukherjee was born in 1950 in New Delhi, India. Her parents, [[Vidya Dhar Mahajan]] and Savitri Shori Mahajan, had been renowned teachers of history in [[Lahore]], from where they emigrated to New Delhi following the [[Partition of India]] in 1947.<ref name=tns>{{cite news|newspaper=The News on Sunday|url=http://tns.thenews.com.pk/india-pakistan-shared-history/#.VYgS8-v4TGg|title=India and Pakistan have a shared history|last=Khan|first=Zaman|date=5 April 2015|access-date=22 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709180303/http://tns.thenews.com.pk/india-pakistan-shared-history/#.VYgS8-v4TGg|archive-date=9 July 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=peasantbook>{{cite book|title=Peasants in India's Non-Violent Revolution: Practice and Theory|last=Mukherjee|first=Mridula|url=http://historydepartmentphilos.weebly.com/uploads/2/6/6/1/26612531/mridula_mukherjee_peasants_in_indias_non-violent_revolution_practice_and_theory.pdf|pages=12–13}}</ref> Her sister, [[Sucheta Mahajan]], is a professor of Indian history at JNU,<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Times of India|title=Nehru library head on Cong panel, flouts rules|date=29 December 2010|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Nehru-library-head-on-Cong-panel-flouts-rules/articleshow/7181440.cms|last=Mukul|first=Akshaya|access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref> and her brother is Ajay Mahajan.<ref name=peasantbook/> Mukherjee is married to the historian Aditya Mukherjee. They have a daughter, Madhavi.<ref name=peasantbook/>

Mukherjee graduated from [[Lady Shri Ram College for Women|Lady Shri Ram College]] in New Delhi. She joined [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]] (JNU) as a post-graduate student in 1971, from where she obtained a [[PhD]] degree.<ref name=tel2009>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]]|title=‘I call them the ‘Secret Seven’ — because the first letter was anonymous’|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090823/jsp/7days/story_11396344.jsp|date=23 August 2009|last=Sarkar|first=Bishakha De|access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref> Her doctoral thesis advisor was [[Bipan Chandra]].<ref name=jnunews>{{cite journal|journal=JNU News|title=In conversation with ... Prof. Mridula Mukherjee|last=Meiling|first=Bhoomika|date=July 2009|volume=4}}</ref>

==Career==
In 1972, while working on her doctoral thesis, Mukherjee was hired by the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, as a faculty member,<ref name=jnunews/> from where she retired as a professor of history. She was a chairperson of the Centre as well. In 2005, she was appointed as the [[Director (education)|director]] of the [[Nehru Memorial Museum and Library]], [[New Delhi]].

==Research==
She investigated agrarian history in the [[Punjab]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|editor-first=Bharati|editor-last=Ray|encyclopedia=Different Types of History|title=The Study of Regional History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9x5FX2RROZgC&pg=PA216|year=2009|publisher=Pearson Education India|isbn=978-81-317-1818-6|pages=216|last1=Banga|first1=Indu|last2=Grewal|first2=J. S.}}</ref> She argued that despite extensive irrigation works, colonialisation caused agricultural involution, with the number of workers per unit area rising and production dropping.<ref>{{cite book|first=Ulbe|last=Bosma|title=The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia: Industrial Production, 1770-2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZaUaBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA253|date=7 October 2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-03969-8|page=253}}</ref> She also analysed peasant movements in the erstwhile princely states of the Punjab across the pre- and post-1947 periods.<ref name="Ramusack2003">{{cite book|last=Ramusack|first=Barbara N. |title=The Indian Princes and their States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kz1-mtazYqEC&pg=PA206|date=19 December 2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-44908-3|page=206}}</ref> Her critical analysis of a Marxian orientation of peasant consciousness has been highlighted.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = SinghaRoy | first1 = Debal | year = 2006 | title = Review of "Peasants in India's non-violent revolution: Practice and theory (Sage series in Modern Indian History - V) by Mridula Mukherjee" | journal = Sociological Bulletin | volume = 55 | issue = 3 | pages = 490 | jstor = 23620768}}</ref>

A common thread running through Mukherjee's work has been a criticism of the [[Subaltern (postcolonialism)|Subaltern]] mode of historical inquiry,<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Modern Asian Studies|volume=33|number=3|year=1999|url=http://libcom.org/files/Ruud.pdf|title=The Indian Hierarchy: Culture, Ideology and Consciousness in Bengali Village Politics|last=Ruud|first=Arild E.|doi=10.1017/s0026749x9900342x|pages=689–732}}</ref> which informs her analysis of peasant movements as well as her other major contribution: modern Indian history. This is encapsulated by the two books co-written with [[Bipan Chandra]] et al: ''India's Struggle for Independence'' and ''India after independence: 1947-2000''. In the former book, the authors sought to "demolish the influence of the Cambridge and [[Subaltern (postcolonialism)|Subaltern]] 'schools' reflected in the writing on colonialism and nationalism in India".<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Pacific Affairs|date=Summer 1991|title=Review: India's Struggle for Independence 1857-1947|pages=272|first=Milton|last=Israel|volume=64|number=2|jstor=2759990|doi=10.2307/2759990}}</ref>

==Ideology==
After Mukherjee was appointed as the director of the [[Nehru Memorial Museum and Library]] (NMML) two letters, written between February 2008 and June 2009 and signed by various academics, including [[Ramchandra Guha]] and [[Sumit Sarkar]] were sent to the NMML's executive council complaining of alleged deterioration in scholarly standards of the centre.<ref name=tel2009/><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[OPEN (Indian magazine)|Open Magazine]]|url=http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/art-culture/my-reputation-can-take-mudslinging|title='My Reputation Can Take Mudslinging'|last=Jayaram|first=Rahul|date=1 August 2009|access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Economic Times|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/saving-the-nehru-memorial-museum-and-library/articleshow/4708254.cms|title=Saving the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library|date=27 June 2009|last1=Advani|first1=Rukun|last2=Guha|first2=Ramachandra|last3=Kesavan|first3=Mukul|last4=Lahiri|first4=Nayanjot}}</ref>

Supporting Mukherjee, another set of academics, including [[Irfan Habib]] and [[Madhu Kishwar]], wrote to the Prime Minister of India protesting her treatment. Mukherjee herself pointed out that under her tenure, the NMML had completed a ten-volume publication of the selected works of [[Jayaprakash Narayan]], besides initiating a digitisation project.<ref name=tel2009/><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Economic Times|title=Popularising the values of the Freedom Struggle|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2009-06-27/news/27637200_1_signature-campaign-ramachandra-guha-fellowship-selection-committee|date=27 June 2009|access-date=22 June 2015|last1=Kishwar|first1=Madhu|last2=Sinha|first2=Shantha|last3=Dev|first3=Arjun|last4=Singh|first4=Madan Gopal}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/the-past-clicks-on-in-delhi/article2072191.ece|last=Tripathi|first=Shailaja|date=3 June 2011|title=The past clicks on in Delhi}}</ref>

The executive council disregarded the petition and extended Mukherjee's tenure for another two years.<ref name=tel2009/>

Following the end of her appointment, a search for her replacement ended up in a court case with accusations of irregularities. The Delhi High Court struck down the appointment of Mukherjee's successor on the grounds that the process was faulty and against norms.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Asian Correspondent|url=http://asiancorrespondent.com/65739/another-twist-to-nehru-memorial-spat/|title=Another twist to the Nehru Memorial spat|last=Mukhopadhyay|first=Nilanjan|date=25 September 2011|access-date=22 June 2015}}</ref>

==Selected publications==

===Books===
* {{cite book|last1=Chandra|first1=Bipan|author-link1=Bipan Chandra|last2=Mukherjee|first2=Mridula|title=India's Struggle for Independence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0q7xH06NrFkC|date=14 October 2000|publisher=Penguin|isbn=978-81-8475-183-3}}
* {{cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Mridula|title=Peasants in India's Non-Violent Revolution: Practice and Theory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s8iGAwAAQBAJ|date=8 September 2004|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-81-321-0289-2}}
* {{cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Mridula|title=Colonizing Agriculture: The Myth of Punjab Exceptionalism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IiQza4tpljwC|date=23 November 2005|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-0-7619-3404-2}}
* {{cite book|last1=Chandra|first1=Bipan|author-link1=Bipan Chandra|first2=Aditya|last2=Mukherjee|first3=Mridula|last3=Mukherjee|title=India Since Independence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dE9qEg-NgHMC|year=2008|publisher=Penguin|isbn=978-0-14-310409-4}}
* {{cite book|last1=Mukherjee|first1=Aditya|last2=Mukherjee|first2=Mridula|last3=Mahajan|first3=Sucheta|title=RSS, School Texts and the Murder of Mahatma Gandhi: The Hindu Communal Project|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dfSHAwAAQBAJ|date=5 August 2008|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-81-321-0047-8}}

===Articles===
* {{cite journal|title=Premchand and the Agrarian Classes|year=1973|journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress|location=Chandigarh|last=Mukherjee|first=Mridula}}
* {{cite journal|title=Peasant Movement in Patiala State, 1937-48|year=1979|journal=Studies in History|volume=I|number=2|pages=215–283|last=Mukherjee|first=Mridula}}
* {{cite journal|title=Some Aspects of Agrarian Structure of Punjab, 1925-47|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=XV|number=26|date=28 June 1980|pages=A46-A58|last=Mukherjee|first=Mridula}}
* {{cite encyclopedia|title=Commercialisation and Agrarian Change in Pre-Independence Punjab|last=Mukherjee|first=Mridula|encyclopedia=Essays on the Commercialisation of Indian Agriculture|editor-first1=K.N.|editor-last1=Raj|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1985}}
* {{cite encyclopedia|title=The Bardoli Peasants Struggle, 1928|last=Mukherjee|first=Mridula|encyclopedia=We Fought Together for Freedom|editor-first1=Ravi|editor-last1=Dayal|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1995}}
* {{cite encyclopedia|title=Indian Historiography: Ideological and Political Challenges|last=Mukherjee|first=Mridula|encyclopedia=Contending Ideologies: A Quest for New Moorings|editor-first1=Hema V.|editor-last1=Raghavan|publisher=Gargi|year=2002}}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Worldcat id | lccn-no00020431|name=Mridula Mukherjee}}

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