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'''Sujit Mukherjee''' (21 August 1930 – 14 January 2003) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] writer, translator, [[literary critic]], publisher, teacher and cricketer.

==Career==
Sujit Mukherjee was born in the village of Ariadaha, south of [[Kolkata|Calcutta]],<ref>Sujit Mukherjee, ''Autobiography of an Unknown Cricketer'', Ravi Dayal, Delhi, 1996, p. 161.</ref> and educated at [[St. Xavier's High School, Patna]], [[Patna College]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]]) and the [[University of Pennsylvania]] (PhD). He taught at Patna College, at the [[National Defence Academy]] in [[Khadakwasla]], and at the [[University of Poona]] before joining [[Orient Longman]] in 1970, where he served as Chief Publisher until 1986.<ref>[http://www.sujitmukherjee.net/common/career.html Sujit Mukherjee: Career] Retrieved 30 December 2014.</ref>

He was a prolific writer on a range of literary topics, as well as a translator from [[Bengali language|Bangla]] into English.

==Cricket==
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Despite having to wear thick glasses to compensate for his [[myopia]],<ref>Mukherjee, ''Autobiography of an Unknown Cricketer'', pp. 24–25.</ref> Mukherjee had a long career as a [[batsman]] in university, club and first-class cricket. He played five [[first-class cricket|first-class]] matches as a middle-order batsman for [[Bihar cricket team|Bihar]] between 1951 and 1960. He made his highest score, 33, in his first innings in 1951–52.<ref>{{cite web |title=Uttar Pradeh v Bihar 1951-52 |url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1950S/1951-52/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/UP_BIHAR_RJI_14-17DEC1951.html|website=Cricinfo |access-date=5 February 2022}}</ref>

Returning to the side for Bihar's last [[Ranji Trophy]] game in 1958–59, he made the equal top score for the match, 17 not out, in the second innings in a match in Patna in which only 188 runs were scored for the loss of 32 wickets. After being dismissed for 49 in their first innings, Bihar needed 45 to beat [[Odisha cricket team|Orissa]] and were 19 for 2 when Mukherjee came to the wicket and shared an unbroken partnership of 27 with [[Satyendra Kuckreja]], the highest partnership of the match, to take Bihar to victory.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bihar v Orissa 1958-59 |url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1950S/1958-59/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/EAST/BIHAR_ORISSA_RJI-E_31JAN-01FEB1959.html |website=Cricinfo |access-date=5 February 2022}}</ref>

He became a noted cricket writer, "a wry observer of both the game and academic pretentiousness" who produced "five elegant cricket books".<ref>''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' 2004, p. 1549.</ref> [[Ramachandra Guha]] described them as "the finest books ever written on cricket by an Indian".<ref>[[Ramachandra Guha]], "The Gentleman Scholar: Sujit Mukherjee", in ''The Last Liberal and Other Essays'', Permanent Black, Delhi, 2004, pp. 229–36.</ref> Mukherjee also did radio commentary for [[Test cricket]] between 1975 and 1978.<ref>[http://www.sujitmukherjee.net/common/other_activities.html Sujit Mukherjee: Other activities] Retrieved 30 December 2014.</ref>

==Personal life==
He married in January 1959.<ref>Mukherjee, ''Autobiography of an Unknown Cricketer'', p. 120.</ref> His wife, [[Meenakshi Mukherjee]], who had been one of his early students, was also a literary scholar. They had two daughters.<ref>[https://archive.today/20141229232642/http://www.thehindu.com/lr/2003/02/02/stories/2003020200010100.htm "Remembering Sujit" by Sachidananda Mohanty] Retrieved 30 December 2014.</ref> They lived the final years of their lives in [[Hyderabad]].

==Sujit Mukherjee Memorial Lecture==
The Centre for Comparative Literature at the [[University of Hyderabad]] inaugurated the annual Sujit Mukherjee Memorial Lecture in 2014. Lecturers and the titles of their lectures have been:

* 2014: [[Nabaneeta Dev Sen]] – "Translations and Multilingualism"<ref>{{cite web|title=Sujit Mukherjee Memorial Lecture by Nabaneeta Dev Sen|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSCeY_yUPOA|website=YouTube|access-date=6 April 2015}}</ref>
* 2015: Indra Nath Choudhuri – "The Idea of an Indian Literature"<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thehansindia.com/posts/index/2015-04-18/Insights-of-Indian-literature-145315 | title=Insights of Indian literature | date=19 April 2015 }}</ref>
* 2016: [[Sukanta Chaudhuri]] – "My Tagore, Your Tagore: Translation and Textual Identity"<ref>{{cite web|title=Sujit Mukherjee Memorial Lecture|url=http://uohherald.commuoh.in/sujit-mukherjee-memorial-lecture/|website=UoH herald|access-date=17 February 2016}}</ref>

==Books==

===On cricket===
*''The Romance of Indian Cricket'' 1968
*''Playing for India'' 1972
*''Between Indian Wickets'' 1977
*''Matched Winners'' 1996
*''Autobiography of an Unknown Cricketer'' 1997
*''An Indian Cricket Century: Selected Writings'' 2002

===On literature===
*''A Passage to America: Reception of [[Rabindranath Tagore]] in USA 1913–1941'' 1964
*''Indian Essays in American Literature: Papers in Honour of Robert A. Spiller'' 1969 (edited with D.V.K. Raghavacharyulu)
*''Towards a Literary History of India'' 1975
*''Some Positions on a Literary History of India'' 1980
*''Translation as Discovery and Other Essays on Indian Literature in English Translation'' 1981
*''The Idea of an Indian Literature: A Book of Readings'' 1981 (edited)
*''Forster and Further: The Tradition of Anglo-Indian Fiction'' 1993
*''A Dictionary of Indian Literature: Volume I (Beginnings to 1850)'' 1999

===Translations into English===
*''Bewitched Veil'' (Monindra Ray's ''Mohini Adal'') 1968
*''Naked King and Other Poems'' (poems by Nirendranath Chakrabarty, translated jointly with Meenakshi Mukherjee) 1975
*''Book of Yudhishthir'' ([[Buddhadeb Bose]]'s ''Mahabharater Katha'') 1986
*''Three Companions'' (three long stories by Rabindranath Tagore) 1992
*''Gora'' (Rabindranath Tagore's novel ''[[Gora (novel)|Gora]]'') 1997
*''Modern Poetry and Sanskriti Kavya'' (a long essay by Buddhadeb Bose) 1997

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/31684.html Sujit Mukherjee at Cricinfo]
* [http://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/929945/unknown-cricketers "Unknown cricketers"] by [[Samanth Subramanian]]
* [http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/342893.html "Notes from the middle"] by [[Gideon Haigh]]

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