Janam Mukherjee
Associate Professor
Chair, Department of History
Faculty of Arts
Department of History
Toronto, Ontario
janam.mukherjee@torontomu.ca
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(416) 979-5000 ext. 553140
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Dr. Mukherjee’s primary research focuses on colonial India in the 1940s. His first book, Hungry Bengal: War, Famine, Riots, and the End of Empire 1939-1946, published by Oxford University Press in 2015, examines three interrelated crises that shaped the social, economic, and political context of ...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Mukherjee’s primary research focuses on colonial India in the 1940s. His first book, Hungry Bengal: War, Famine, Riots, and the End of Empire 1939-1946, published by Oxford University Press in 2015, examines three interrelated crises that shaped the social, economic, and political context of pre-partition Bengal: the Second World War in India, the Bengal famine of 1943, and the Calcutta riots of 1946. Dr. Mukherjee also has investigated the social and political impacts of these same events in articles, such as “Hungry Bengal: The Long Journey Home” in South Asian Review, 2011, and “Exit Empire: The Turbulent 40s in Bengal” in the 2015 volume Strangely Beloved: Writings on Calcutta. Dr. Mukherjee also has published articles on contemporary Indian society and politics, including an analysis of the 2008 outbreak of “bird flu” in West Bengal, published in 2012. In addition, Dr. Mukherjee writes on theoretical issues related to interdisciplinary anthropology and history, including a 2008 article, “Structure and Violence: Toward a Historical Anthropology of Violence,” and essays on Bengali literature, most recently an essay on anti-establishment writer Subimal Misra in the collection of that author's short stories titled Wild Animals Prohibited. Before coming to Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson), Dr. Mukherjee was a postdoctoral fellow in the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University. Janam Mukherjee is also an anti-war activist and creative writer.
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