Professor Aditya Mukherjee 

Current Position:

Professor of Contemporary Indian History, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU),
New Delhi

Director, Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study, JNU, New Delhi.

Editor of the Series, ‘Sage Series in Modern Indian History’ published by
SAGE publications. (Thirteen monographs already published in the series)

Some Other Positions Held:

Chairperson, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, New Delhi, 2004-6

President of the Indian History Congress for Modern India, 2007-8

Director, Academic Staff College, JNU, 1997-2004

Visiting Professor at Duke University, North Carolina, U.S.A., Spring 1986

Japan Foundation Fellow 1999-2000, and JSPS Fellow Spring 1996 at University of Tokyo, Japan

Visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Lancaster, UK, October, 2007.

Fellow, Nantes Institute for Advanced Study, France, April-July 2010

Editor, Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, till September 2011

Publications: (Books)

1. India's Struggle for Independence, Viking, 1988, Penguin, 1989 (co-author), 50^th reprint in 2011, translated into five other languages.

2. India After Independence, 1947 – 2000, Viking, 1999, Penguin, 2000 (co-author),
   10^th reprint in 2006, translated into three other languages.

3. India Since Independence, Penguin, 2008, (Co-author). Revised and enlarged edition of Item 2.

4. Imperialism, Nationalism and the Making of the Indian Capitalist Class 1927-1947,
   Sage, 2002.

5. Communalisation of Education, The History Textbook Controversy, editor (with Mridula Mukherjee), Delhi Historians’ Group, 2002.

6. History in the New NCERT Text Books: A Report and an Index of Errors, (co-author), Indian History Congress, 2003.

7. RSS, School Texts and The Murder of Mahatma Gandhi: The Hindu Communal Project, Sage, 2008, (co-author).

Address(office)

Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067 (INDIA).

Phone: 26741131/32, 26742850(Home)

Email: mriduladitya@gmail.com