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{{Infobox scientist<br />
|birth_date= {{Birth date|1917|11|14|df=y}}<br />
|birth_place= Baranagar, [[Calcutta]], [[India]]<br />
|death_date={{Death date and age|2015|11|15|1917|11|14|df=y}}<br />
|education= [[Master of Science|M.Sc]] (Anthropology) and [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]<br />
|nationality= Indian<br />
|field= [[Sociology]], [[Anthropology]], [[Statistics]]<br />
|alma_mater= [[Presidency University, Kolkata|Presidency College]]<br>[[University of Calcutta]]<br />
|spouse= Prabhati Mukherjee<br />
|workplaces= [[Indian Statistical Institute]]<br>[[Indian Sociological Society]]<br />
|awards= Swami Pranavanad Award<br> Jawaharlal Nehru Award for Social Sciences<br>Asiatic Society Gold Medal<br>Lifetime Achievement Award of Indian Sociological Society<br />
|influences= [[Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Ramkrishna Mukherjee''' (14 November 1917 – 15 November 2015) was a scientist at the [[Indian Statistical Institute]], [[Kolkata]],<ref name="Lifesketch">{{cite journal|last1=Munshi|first1=Surendra|title=Life and works of Ramkrishna Mukherjee|journal=Sociological Bulletin|date=2016|volume=65|issue=2|page=263|doi=10.1177/0038022920160207|s2cid=151600427|url=https://www.academia.edu/28546705}}</ref> President of the [[Indian Sociological Society]] (1973–75) and recipient of the Indian Sociological Society's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.<ref name="website">{{cite web|title= Office Bearers over the Years|url=http://www.insoso.org/about/about|website=Indian Sociological Society}}</ref><br />
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He is particularly well known for his study ''Dynamics of a Rural Society ''and his [[dialectical method]] in dealing with the study of Indian society.<ref>DNDhanagre- Practising Sociology through History Economic and Political Weekly August 2007</ref><br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
He was born to a middle-class family in Kolkata, India, his father Satindra Nath being an engineer in the Indian Railways. He obtained MSc degree in 1941 from [[University of Calcutta]] and a PhD in 1948 from the [[University of Cambridge]], [[United Kingdom]]. From 1941 to 1944 he was an activist in the [[Peasant movement]].<ref name="Lifesketch" /> Although he specialized in [[human genetics]], he took lessons in [[statistics]] from [[Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis]], founder of the ISI.<ref name="Review">{{cite journal|last1=Munshi|first1=Surendra|title=Social change in India Reconsidering Ramkrishna Mukherjee|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|date=2016|volume=51|issue=39|page=40|url=https://www.academia.edu/28763562}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
In 1948 and 1949 he was Chief Research Officer to His Majesty's Social Survey, [[London]] and had been Consultant to Government of [[Turkey]] in 1949 and Consultant to the [[London School of Economics]] in 1952. He began his career as a Professor at the Institute of Indian Studies at [[Humboldt University of Berlin]] in [[Germany]] from 1953 to 1957. He was [[Adjunct Professor]] at [[Binghamton University]] in the [[United States]] from 1977 to 1989. He spent most of his professional life with the Indian Statistical Institute from 1944 until his retirement in 1979.<ref name="Lifesketch" /><ref name="LC linked data">{{cite web|title=Ramkrishna Mukherjee|url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095765.html|website=Library of Congress Name Authority File}}</ref><br />
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==Work==<br />
Along with D. P. Mukherjee, he established the ''All India Sociological Conference (AISC)''.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Patel|first1=S.|title=The Profession and Its Association-Five Decades of the Indian Sociological Society|journal=International Sociology|date=2002|volume=17|issue=2|pages=269–284|url=https://www.academia.edu/323748|doi=10.1177/0268580902017002008|s2cid=143490100}}</ref><ref name="website" /> He worked as adviser for social science institutions and journals in India and abroad. With his work the theme of [[agrarian society|agrarian]] social structure and change was to re-appear in Indian Sociology only after a gap of nearly two decades in the late 1960s and 1970s. Among Indian sociologists, he stressed the importance of a [[dialectic]] model for the study of Indian society and made systematic as well as [[empirical]] studies using this model. This is exemplified by his book '' Rise and Fall of East India Company ''(1958) which is a contribution to economic and social history of the institutionalization of colonialism in India .<ref name="Paper" /> <ref>In his later works Ramkrishna Mukherjee had changed from dialectical - historical to a probabilistic nomological approach to the study of social reality</ref> He tried to develop an [[inductive reasoning|inductive]] methodology for social sciences.<ref name="critique">{{cite journal|last1=Bose|first1=Pradip Kumar|title=Problems and Paradoxes of Inductive Social Science- A Critique of Ramkrishna Mukherjee|journal=Sociological Bulletin|date=1997|volume=46|issue=2|pages=153–171|jstor=23619587|doi=10.1177/0038022919970201|s2cid=171179656}}</ref> His research interests included genetics, studies in classification of families, rural society, historical sociology, problems of [[acculturation]]<ref>Ramkrishna Mukherjee. ''The Problem of Uganda. A Study in Acculturation''. Abhandlungen der [[Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR|Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin]]. Klasse für Philosophie, Geschichte, Staats-, Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Jahrgang 1955 Nr. 2. Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1956.</ref> and [[Social Indicators Research]]<ref name="Paper">{{cite web|title=Contribution of Ramkrishna Mukherjee to Indian Sociology|url=https://yourarticlelibrary.com/sociology/contribution-of-ramkrishna-mukherjee-to-indian-sociology/35055|website=Your Article Library|date=2014-04-11}}</ref> besides which he contributed over subjects like family, caste and class, agrarian relations in West Bengal, nationalism in Bangladesh, urbanization and social change and colonial exploitation by the [[East India Company]] and in [[Uganda]], and also contributed towards designing of National Sample Surveys. He had a Marxian and historical perspective with which he studied social institutions such as family and caste.<ref name="Prepublication">{{cite web|last1=Lindberg|first1=Staffan|title=Some Unity in Diversity:Analysing Inequality, Change and Mobility in Rural South India|date=2016|url=https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/files/11495235/Lindberg_some_Unity_in|website=Lund University}}</ref><br />
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==Awards and honors==<br />
*[[Asiatic Society]] Gold Medal for Anthropology (1981)<br />
*National Fellow, [[Indian Council of Social Science Research]] from 1992 to 1994<br />
*[https://www.ugc.ac.in/page/Honours-and-Awards.aspx%27 Swami Pranavanand Education Award for Sociology] by [[University Grants Commission (India)|University Grants Commission]]| New Delhi,(1985)<ref name="Lifesketch" /><br />
* {{cite web|title=Pandit Jawaharla Nehru National Award Social Science|date=1986|url=http://mpcost.gov.in/WriteReadData/UserFiles/file//NATIONAL-SOCIAL%20SCIENCE.pdf}}by Government of Madhya Pradesh<br />
* Member-Executive Committee, [[International Sociological Association]]| (ISA) (1976)<ref name="Report">{{cite web|title=ISA Executive Committee Members -1976|url=http://www.isa-sociology.org/uploads/files/isa-bulletin11.pdf|website=ISA Bulletin11}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Mukherjee married Prabhati Mukherjee, an academician, who died in 2008. They had two daughters, both of whom entered the academic field.<ref name="Lifesketch" /><br />
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==Selected publications==<br />
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===Books===<br />
*{{cite book|last=Mukherjee,Trevor,Rao|title=Ancient Inhabitants of Jabel Moya Sudan|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=1955|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BDYdC5n28fgC&q=0521134749|isbn=9780521134743}}<br />
* {{cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=The Sociologist and Social Change in India Today|publisher=New Delhi,Prentice Hall|date=1965|oclc=8323616|asin=B000IUNVH6}}<br />
* {{cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=Six villages of Bengal|publisher=Popular Prakashan|date=1971|asin=B0006CDL3U}}<br />
* {{cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=The Dynamics of A Rural Society-A study of the Economic Structure of Bengal Villages|publisher=Akademie-verlag- Berlin|date=1957|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jqs30ViYcJMC&q=8171552153&pg=PR4|isbn=9788171552153}}<br />
* {{cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=The Rise and Fall of the East India Company-A Sociological Appraisal|publisher=Popular Prakashan|date=1958|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fFEhAAAAMAAJ&q=o865430160|isbn=978-0853453154}}<br />
* {{cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=Social Indicators|publisher=Delhi,MacMilan Company|date=1975|oclc=2290516|isbn=978-0333900901}}<br />
* {{cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=Family and Planning in India|publisher=Bombay,Orient Longman|date=1976|oclc=3558626}}<br />
* {{cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=What will it be? Explorations in Inductive Sociology|publisher=Carolina Academic Press|date=1978|oclc=5979960|isbn=978-0890890943}}<br />
* {{cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=Classification in Social Research|publisher=State University,New York|date=1984|url=https://archive.org/details/classificationin0000mukh|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/classificationin0000mukh/page/55 55]|quote=087395607g.|isbn=9780873956079}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=The Measure of Time in the Appraisal of Social Reality|publisher=Cambridge Scholar Publishing|date=2009|isbn=9781443805766}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=Uganda,an historical accident?:Class, Nation and State Formation|publisher=Africa Research and Publications|date=1985|isbn=0865430152}}<br />
* {{cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=The Quality of Life,Valuation in Social Research|publisher=Sage publications |date=1989|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xHq6AAAAIAAJ&q=865403160|isbn=9780803995871}}{{isbn|0803995873}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=Why Unitary Social Science?|publisher=Cambridge Scholar Publishing|date=2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uLMLBwAAQBAJ&q=1443802123|isbn=9781443803076}}<br />
* {{cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=Systemic Sociology|publisher=Sage Publications|date=1993|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XktraNwV8K4C&q=8170363527 |isbn=978-8170363521}}<br />
* {{cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=West Bengal Family Structures,1946-1966: An Example of Viability of Joint family|publisher=South Asia Books|date=1977|isbn=9780333901311|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HMEJAQAAIAAJ}}<br />
* {{cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=Society,Culture,Development|publisher=Sage Publications|date=1991|isbn=0803991029}}<br />
* {{cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=Sociology of Indian Sociology|publisher=Bombay Allied|date=1979|oclc=6280302}}<br />
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===Felicitation volumes===<br />
* {{cite book|last =Mukherjee,Mukherjee|title=Methodology in Social Research- Dilemmas and Perspectives-Essays in Honor of Ramkrishna Mukherjee|publisher=Sage Publications|date=2000|isbn=9780761994404}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Mukherjee,Kar|title=Globalization-Trends and Perspectives - Essays in Honor of Ramkrishna Mukherjee|publisher=Kolkata Directed Initiatives|date=2002|url=http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/363641580.pdf |oclc=52929145}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Bhattacharya, Ghosh,Das|title=Sociology in the Rubric Social Science- Professor Ramkrishna Mukherjee felicitation volume|publisher=Anthropological Survey of India|date=1995|isbn=978-8185579337}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=MukherjeeParthNath|display-authors=etal|title=Understanding Social Dynamics in South Asia: Essays in memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee|date=2018 |isbn=978-9811303869}}<br />
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===Selected journal articles===<br />
*{{Cite journal|last=Mukherjee,Mahalnobis, Ghosh|title=A Sample Survey of After-Effects of the Bengal Famine|date=1946|journal=Sankhya|volume=7|issue=4|pages=337–400|jstor=25047881}}<br />
*{{cite journal|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=Sociologists and Social Change in India Today|journal=Sociological Bulletin|volume=11|issue=1/2|pages=4–13|date=1962|jstor=23618811|doi=10.1177/0038022919620102|s2cid=157545526}}<br />
*{{cite journal|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=Some observations on diachronic and synchronic aspects of social change|date=1968|journal=Social Science Information|volume=7|pages=31–53|doi=10.1177/053901846800700102|s2cid=145794697}}<br />
*{{cite journal|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=Social Background of Bangla Desh|date=1972|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=7|issue=5/7|pages=265–274|jstor=4361004}}<br />
*{{cite journal|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=Empirical social research on contemperory India|journal=Social Science Information|volume=8|issue=6|pages=69–83|date=1969|doi=10.1177/053901846900800605|s2cid=145166890}}<br />
*{{cite journal|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=Realities of Agrarian Relations in India|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=16|issue=4|pages=109–116|date=1981|jstor=4369463}}<br />
*{{cite journal|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=For a Sociology of India-Trends in Indian Sociology|journal=Contributions to Indian Sociology|volume=13|issue=2|pages=319–332|date=1979|doi=10.1177/006996677901300207|s2cid=143637640}}<br />
*{{cite journal|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=On the Use of Social Indicators for Planning|journal=Social Indicators Research|volume=9|issue=2|pages=183–195|date=1981|doi=10.1007/BF00286196|s2cid=144470812}}<br />
*{{cite journal|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=I P Desai and Sociology of India|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=21|issue=4|pages=164–168|date=1986|jstor=4375254}}<br />
*{{cite journal|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=Social and Cultural Components of Society and Appraisal of Social Reality|date=1991|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=26|issue=4|pages=PE21–PE36|jstor=4397241}}<br />
*{{cite journal|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=Social Reality and Culture|date=1998|journal=Current Sociology|volume=46|issue=2|pages=39–50|doi=10.1177/0011392198046002005|s2cid=143726807}}<br />
*{{cite journal|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=The Sociologist and The Social Reality|date=1974|journal=Sociological Bulletin|volume=23|issue=2|pages=169–192|jstor=23618941|doi=10.1177/0038022919740202|s2cid=151484377}}<br />
*{{cite journal|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=Caste in Itself,Caste and Class, or Caste in Class|date=1999|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=34|issue=27|pages=1759–1761|jstor=4408152}}<br />
*{{cite journal|last=Mukherjee|first=Ramkrishna|title=Study of Social Change and Social Development in Developing Societies|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|volume=5|issue=29/31|pages=1159–1170|date=1970|jstor=4360261}}<br />
*{{cite journal|last=Mukherjee|display-authors=etal|title=Data Inventory on Social Sciences:India:First Phase:1967-68|journal=Sankhya|volume=32|issue=1/2|pages=99–140|date=1970|jstor=25051723}}<br />
*{{cite journal |jstor=23619815|title=Radha Kamal Mukerjee—A Note|journal=Sociological Bulletin|volume=38|issue=2|pages=261–265|last1=Mukherjee|first1=Ramkrishna|year=1989|doi=10.1177/0038022919890207|s2cid=157343186}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* {{cite journal|title= Ramkrishna Mukherjee in conversation with Anjan Ghosh|date=2014|journal=Sociological Bulletin|volume=63|issue=1|pages=113–140|jstor=43854956|last1=Mukherjee|first1=Ramkrishna|last2=Ghosh|first2=Anjan|doi=10.1177/0038022920140107|s2cid=151336707}}<br />
* {{cite journal|title=Red Fifties:Ramkrishna Mukherjee, Frank Girling, Marxist Anthropology and anti-communism|journal= Journal of the Asiatic Society|date=2017|url=https://redthirties.wordpress.com/category/ramkrishna-mukherjee}}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [https://www.isical.ac.in/Announcement_SRU.pdf ''Special lectures commemorating Professor Ramkrishna Mukherjee, 28-29 March 2016'']<br />
* [https://www.epw.in/journal/2016/10/commentary/ramkrishna-mukherjee.html '' In Memorium Ramkrishna Mukherjee by TNMadan'']<br />
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