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'''Radha Kumud Mukherjee''' (also spelled '''Radhakumud''' or '''Radha Kumud Mookerji'''; 25 January 1884 – 9 September 1963<ref name="unity">{{cite book|last1=Mookerji|first1=Radha Kumud|title=The Fundamental Unity of India|date=2003|publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan/Chronicle Books|location=New Delhi|isbn=9788180280054|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_0x5pkIfsV4C|access-date=4 September 2015|chapter=About the Author}}</ref>) was an | '''Radha Kumud Mukherjee''' (also spelled '''Radhakumud''' or '''Radha Kumud Mookerji'''; 25 January 1884 – 9 September 1963<ref name="unity">{{cite book|last1=Mookerji|first1=Radha Kumud|title=The Fundamental Unity of India|date=2003|publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan/Chronicle Books|location=New Delhi|isbn=9788180280054|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_0x5pkIfsV4C|access-date=4 September 2015|chapter=About the Author}}</ref>) was an Indian [[historian]] and a noted [[Indian nationalist]] during the period of British [[colonial rule]]. He was the brother of the sociologist [[Radhakamal Mukerjee]].<ref name=khatkate>{{cite journal|last1=Khatkhate|first1=Deena|title=An Economist Whose Present Was in the Past|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|date=8 October 1988|volume=23|issue=41|pages=2093–2094|jstor=4379145}}</ref> | ||
==Career== | ==Career== | ||
Mukherjee obtained a doctorate from the [[University of Calcutta]] in 1905 and joined the newly established [[National Council of Education]], teaching at the [[Bengal National College]]. After 1915, he embarked on a series of tenures at universities in [[Banaras Hindu University|Benares]], [[University of Mysore|Mysore]], and [[University of Lucknow|Lucknow]].<ref name="unity" /> | Mukherjee obtained a doctorate from the [[University of Calcutta]] in 1905 and joined the newly established [[National Council of Education]], teaching at the [[Bengal National College]]. After 1915, he embarked on a series of tenures at universities in [[Banaras Hindu University|Benares]], [[University of Mysore|Mysore]], and [[University of Lucknow|Lucknow]].<ref name="unity" /> | ||
He published ''Indian Shipping: A History of Seaborne Trade and Maritime Activity of the Indians from the Earliest Times'' in 1912. He was an advocate of the notion of [[Greater India]] in which Indian [[merchant]]s and [[adventurer]]s with huge fleets brought Indians to [[Southeast Asia]] and became the foundation of kingdoms in that region.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hall|first=D.G.E.|title=A History of South-East Asia, Fourth Edition|year=1981|publisher=Macmillan Education Ltd.|location=Hong Kong|isbn=0-333-24163-0|pages=16}}</ref> | He published ''Indian Shipping: A History of Seaborne Trade and Maritime Activity of the Indians from the Earliest Times'' in 1912. He was an advocate of the notion of [[Greater India]] in which Indian [[merchant]]s and [[adventurer]]s with huge fleets brought Indians to [[Southeast Asia]] and became the foundation of kingdoms in that region.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hall|first=D.G.E.|title=A History of South-East Asia, Fourth Edition|year=1981|publisher=Macmillan Education Ltd.|location=Hong Kong|isbn=0-333-24163-0|pages=16}}</ref> | ||
He was awarded the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 1957 for his contribution to Public Affairs.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=July 21, 2015}}</ref> | He was awarded the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 1957 for his contribution to Public Affairs.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=July 21, 2015}}</ref> | ||