India in the Shadows of Empire
October 23, 2012
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9053187-india-in-the-shadows-of-empire India in the Shadows of Empire: A Legal and Political History, 1774-1950 by Mithi Mukherjee This…
Mithi Mukherjee
EDUCATION: B. A., Presidency College (Calcutta, India), 1987., M.A., Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, India), 1990., Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2001. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Modern Indian political and cultural history, Modern Bengal, Comparative Legal and Constitutional Theory and History, Comparative Colonialism, Gender history and theory, Comparative Democracies, Human Rights, Subaltern Studies, Asian Studies. Mithi Mukherjee (Ph.D., University of Chicago; Associate Professor) Professor Mukherjee specializes in the legal, political, and cultural history of modern India. Her interests include colonialism and nationalism, law and empire, human rights, comparative constitutionalism and democracy, gender, poststructuralism, postcolonial theory, and subaltern histories. She is the author of India in the Shadows of Empire: A Legal and Political History, 1774-1950 published by Oxford University Press in 2010. Her other publications include “Transcending Identity: Gandhi, Nonviolence, and the Pursuit of a ‘Different’ Freedom in Modern India” in the American Historical Review, 115:2 (April 2010), 453-473, “A World of Illusion: The Place of Empire in India’s Foreign Relations, 1947-1962” in the International History Review, 32:2 (June, 2010), and “Justice, War, and the Imperium: India and Britain in Edmund Burke's Prosecutorial Speeches in the Impeachment Trial of Warren Hastings” in Law and History Review, 23:3 (Fall 2005), 589-630. Professor Mukherjee can be reached at Mithi.Mukherjee at Colorado.EDU and she maintains a web presence at http://spot.colorado.edu/~mukherjm/.
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