Rila Mukherjee (University of Hyderabad)

Rila Mukherjee
Professor of History
School of Social Science
University of Hyderabad, Gachibowli
Hyderabad 500 046
Andhra Pradesh, INDIA

phone: 91/99-8590-7167 (mobile)
phone: 91/40-2313-3163 (office)
fax:   91/40/2313-3159

email: rila.mukherjee@gmail.com
email: clio_57@hotmail.com
email: rila1@rediffmail.com
email: rmss@uohyd.ernet.in

URL: http://www.uohyd.ernet.in/academic/school_study/social_sciences/rila_mukherjee.pdf

Description of work: 

currently interested in the historical cartography of the Bengal delta. A 
member of the DynCoopNet project funded by the Eutopean Science Foundation 
from 2007 to 2010, her publications in the last five years include:

BOOKS AUTHORED

2006 Strange Riches: Bengal in the Mercantile Map of Southasia 
(Cambridge/Foundation Books, New Delhi).

2006 Merchants and Companies in Bengal: Kasimbazar and Jugdia in the 
Eighteenth Century (New Delhi, Pragati Publications).

2004 Rupantorito Europe (In Bengali), Calcutta, Progressive Publishers. 

2003 Europe Transformed 1350-1789, Calcutta, Progressive Publishers. 

2003 The Lost Worlds of Europe From Late Antiquity to the Early Modern 
Age, Calcutta, Progressive Publishers. 

BOOKS EDITED 

2009 Locality History Memory: The Making of the Citizen in Southasia 
co-edited with M.N.Rajesh (Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle, U.K.).

2005 Coeditor of Europe in the Second Millennium: A Hegemony Achieved? 
Calcutta, Centre for European Studies, J.U./Progressive Publishers.

ARTICLES/CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS 

2008 State and Polity in Medieval India in Chittabrata Palit ed. Indian 
Historiography, Vol. I, Kolkata, Readers Service.

2008 Creating a New Century? Truth, Liberty, Nightmare and Corrective 
Discipline in the Bernstein Collection, in The Michel Bernstein Collection 
and Studies on the French Revolution, Tokyo, Center For Historical 
Studies, Institute for Development of Social Intelligence, Senshu 
University.

2008 The Mystery of Samandar in S. Jeyaseela Stephen ed. The Indian Trade 
at the Asian Frontier, New Delhi, Gyan Books.

2007 Faith and Empire: Vailankanni in Portuguese Asia, Metahistory: 
History Questioning History, Festschrift in Honour of Teotonio R. de Souza 
eds. C.J.Borges and M.N.Pearson, Lisbon, Nova Vega. 

PROJECT REPORTS 
2008 March Creating a New Century? Truth, Liberty, Nightmare and 
Corrective Discipline in the Bernstein Collection, Center for Historical 
Studies, Senshu University, Tokyo, Annual Report No.5 of ORC Project The 
French Revolution and Modernization in Japan and Other Asian Nations, 
Institute for Development of Social Intelligence, Graduate Schools of 
Senshu University. 

2007 March, Preconditions for the French Revolution in the History of 
Europe, Center for Historical Studies, Senshu University, Tokyo, Annual 
Report No.4 of ORC Project The French Revolution and Modernization in 
Japan and Other Asian Nations, Institute for Development of Social 
Intelligence, Graduate Schools of Senshu University. 

REFEREED JOURNALS 
2009 Review of Religion Law and Power, The Icfai University Journal of 
History and Culture, V.III, No. 1, January: 117-121.

2008 The struggle for the Bay. The life and times of Sandwip, an almost 
unkmown Portuguese port in the Bay of Bengal in the Sixteenth and 
Seventeenth Centuries, Revista da Faculdade de Letras - Histria",Porto, 
Faculdade de Letras, 3 srie, vol. 9, 2008, pp. 67-88 (ISSN: 0871-164X).

2008 PUTTING THE RAFTS OUT TO SEA: Talking of Bera Bhashan in Bengal, 
Transforming Cultures eJournal, Vol. 3 No 2, November 2008, Sydney, 
http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/TfC, special issue Cultural Currents 
of the Indian Ocean, eds. Devleena Ghosh and Lola Sharon Davidson.

2008 The Indian Ocean in the New Thalassology, Archipel 76, Paris: 
291-329.

2008 Review, By My Absolute Royal Authority, Medieval History Journal, 
Jan-June: 150-3.

2008 From the Mountains to the Seas, Indian Historical Review, XXXV, 1, 
January, 208-226.

2007 Short Notice, Indian Historical Review, XXXIV, 2, July, 267-8.

2007 The Neglected Sea-The Eastern Indian Ocean in History, Journal of the 
Asiatic Society, XLIX, 4. 18-49.

2007 The Neglected Sea-The Eastern Indian Ocean in History, Journal of the 
Asiatic Society, XLIX, 3. 1-48.

2007 The Last Commercial Frontier: French and English Presence in South 
Eastern Bengal and Beyond in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century in 
Indian Historical Review, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1 (January), ICHR, New Delhi. 

FORTHCOMING  

Books: 
Single authored, The Neglected Sea

Editor: Global Systems, Networks and Commodities in the First Global Age 
1400-1800 (working title), ICHR Monograph Series, New Delhi, India (Ms. 
submitted to ICHR in May 2009).

Editor: Dynamics in the Bay of Bengal (working title), ICHR Monograph 
Series, New Delhi, India.