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'''Rila Mukherjee''' is a historian and author.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=The French East India Company at Home and Abroad |url=https://www.epw.in/journal/2019/46/review-article/french-east-india-company-home-and-abroad.html |language=en |volume=54 |issue=46}}</ref> She is a professor at the University of Hyderabad.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rila Mukherjee - AMESA |url=https://amesa.library.columbia.edu/scholars/797?locale=en |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=amesa.library.columbia.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mukherjee |first=Rila |title=The Bay and the Straits: The Melaka Era (1402-1641) in the Bengal Region |url=https://worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu/17.3/Melaka.html |journal=World History Connected |volume=17 |issue=3}}</ref> She is a scholar of [[Indian Ocean studies]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Why Artists Are Returning to ‘Oceanic Thinking’ |url=https://artreview.com/artists-oceanic-thinking-consciousness-water-aquatic-turn/ |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=artreview.com |language=en}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Mukherjee's father, [[Ramkrishna Mukherjee]], and mother, Prabhati Mukherjee, were academics.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Munshi |first=Surendra |title=Life and Works of Ramkrishna Mukherjee: A Preliminary Appreciation |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26368038 |journal=Sociological Bulletin |volume=65 |issue=2 |pages=262–271 |issn=0038-0229}}</ref>

Mukherjee completed her PhD from the [[School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Prof. Rila Mukherjee, Ph.D |url=https://socialsciences.uohyd.ac.in/history/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/Rila.pdf |access-date=17 July 2023 |website=[[University of Hyderabad]]}}</ref>

==Career==
Mukherjee taught history at [[Jadavpur University]] from 1992 to 2007.<ref name=":0" /> She joined the [[University of Hyderabad]] in 2007.<ref name=":0" /> She is a fellow of the [[Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta]].<ref name=":0" /> She is a staff member of the [[International Institute for Asian Studies]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rila Mukherjee {{!}} IIAS |url=https://www.iias.asia/profile/rila-mukherjee |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=www.iias.asia}}</ref> She is the editor of the [[Asian Review of World Histories|''Asian Review of World Histories'']] published by the Asian Association of World Historians.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Asian Review of World Histories |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/arwh/arwh-overview.xml |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=Brill |language=en}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==

* India in the Indian Ocean World: From the Earliest Times to 1800 CE<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mukherjee |first=Rila |title=India in the Indian Ocean world: from the earliest times to 1800 CE |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-981-16-6580-6 |location=Singapore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mukherjee |first=Rila |title=India in the Indian Ocean World |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-6581-3 |journal=SpringerLink |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-981-16-6581-3}}</ref>
* Indian Ocean Histories<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mukherjee |first=Rila |title=Indian ocean histories: the many worlds of Michael Naylor Pearson |publisher=Routledge India |isbn=978-0-367-78459-1 |location=Abingdon (GB)}}</ref>
* From Mountain Fastness to Coastal Kingdoms<ref>{{Cite book |title=From mountain fastness to coastal kingdoms: hard money and 'cashless' economies in the medieval Bay of Bengal world |publisher=Manohar |isbn=978-0-367-41915-8 |editor-last=Deyell |editor-first=John S. |location=New Delhi |editor-last2=Mukherjee |editor-first2=Rila}}</ref>
* Oceans Connect: Reflections on Water Worlds across Time and Space (Issues in History)<ref>{{Cite book |title=Oceans connect: reflections on water worlds across time and space |publisher=Primus Books |isbn=978-93-80607-40-5 |editor-last=Mukherjee |editor-first=Rila |edition=1. publ |series=Issues in history |location=Delhi}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Oceans and empires |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/oceans-and-empires/cid/1286077 |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=www.telegraphindia.com |language=en}}</ref>
* Living with Water: Peoples, Lives and Livelihoods in Asia and Beyond<ref>{{Cite book |title=Living with water: peoples, lives, and livelihoods in Asia and beyond |publisher=Primus Books |isbn=978-93-84092-00-9 |editor-last=Mukherjee |editor-first=Rila |series=Issues in history |location=Delhi}}</ref>
* Rethinking Connectivity: Region, Place and Space in Asia (Issues in History)<ref>{{Cite book |title=Rethinking connectivity: region, place and space in Asia |publisher=Primus Books |isbn=978-93-84082-84-0 |editor-last=Ghosh |editor-first=Lipi |series=Issues in history |location=Delhi |editor-last2=Mukherjee |editor-first2=Rila}}</ref>
* Beyond National Frames (Issues in History)<ref>{{Cite book |title=Beyond national frames: South Asian pasts and the world |publisher=Primus Books |isbn=978-93-84082-41-3 |editor-last=Mukherjee |editor-first=Rila |series=Issues in history |location=Delhi}}</ref>
* Subversive Sovereigns Across the Seas Indian Ocean Ports of Trade From Early Historic Times to Late Colonialism<ref>{{Cite book |title=Subversive sovereigns across the seas: Indian Ocean ports-of-trade from early historic times to late colonialism |publisher=The Asiatic Society |isbn=978-93-81574-70-6 |editor-last=Hall |editor-first=Kenneth R. |location=Kolkata |editor-last2=Mukherjee |editor-first2=Rila |editor-last3=Ghosh |editor-first3=Suchandra}}</ref>
* Vanguards of Globalization (Issues in History)<ref>{{Cite book |title=Vanguards of globalization: port-cities from the classical to the modern |publisher=Primus Books |isbn=978-93-80607-94-8 |editor-last=Mukherjee |editor-first=Rila |edition=1. publ |series=Issues in history |location=Delhi}}</ref>
* Pelagic Passageways: The Northern Bay of Bengal Before Colonialism<ref>{{Cite book |title=Pelagic passageways: the northern Bay of Bengal before colonialism |publisher=Primus Books |isbn=978-93-80607-20-7 |editor-last=Mukherjee |editor-first=Rila |edition=1. publ |location=Delhi}}</ref>
* Networks in the First Global Age: 1400-1800<ref>{{Cite book |title=Networks in the First Global Age 1400 - 1800 |publisher=Indian Council of Historical Research [u.a.] |isbn=978-93-80607-09-2 |editor-last=Mukherjee |editor-first=Rila |edition=1. publ |series=Indian Council of Historical Research monograph series |location=New Delhi |editor-last2=Indian Council of Historical Research}}</ref> published by the [[Indian Council of Historical Research]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Balakrishnan |first=Ajit |title=The story of Kasimbazar's networks |url=https://www.rediff.com/money/column/column-the-story-of-kasimbazar-networks/20111007.htm |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=Rediff |language=en}}</ref>
* Cross-Cultural Networking in the Eastern Indian Ocean Realm, c. 100-1800<ref>{{Cite book |title=Cross-cultural networking in the Eastern Indian ocean realm: c.100-1800 |publisher=Primus Books |isbn=978-93-5290-695-6 |editor-last=Hall |editor-first=Kenneth R. |location=Delhi |editor-last2=Ghosh |editor-first2=Suchandra |editor-last3=Gangopadhyay |editor-first3=Kaushik |editor-last4=Mukherjee |editor-first4=Rila}}</ref>
* Europe Transformed: 1350-1789<ref>{{Cite web |title=Europe Transformed: 1350-1789 - Rila, Mukherjee: 9788180640506 - AbeBooks |url=https://www.abebooks.com/9788180640506/Europe-Transformed-1350-1789-Rila-Mukherjee-8180640507/plp |access-date=2023-07-17 |website=www.abebooks.com |language=en}}</ref>
* Strange Riches: Bengal in the Mercantile Map of South Asia<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mukherjee |first=Rila |title=Strange riches: Bengal in the mercantile map of South Asia |publisher=Foundation Books |isbn=978-81-7596-324-5 |location=Delhi}}</ref>
* Locality, History, Memory: The Making of the Citizen in South Asia (Pasts and Futures: Readings in a Contemporary World)<ref>{{Cite book |title=Locality, history, memory: the making of the citizen in South Asia |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publ |isbn=978-1-4438-0188-1 |editor-last=Mukherjee |editor-first=Rila |edition=1. publ |location=Newcastle}}</ref>

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