Sumita Mukherjee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sumita Mukherjee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sumita |
| FAMILY NAME | Mukherjee |
| SIGNATURE | MUKHERJEE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0290-6562 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Worldly Afterlives: Tracing Family Trails between India and Empire by Julia Stephens
Mariners: Race, Religion and Empire. Special Issue: Introduction
Race, Religion and the Lascar’s Body in British Port Cities, C.1815–1914
The South Asian child in colonial East Africa
David Holland. Imperial Heartland: Immigration, Working-class Culture and Everyday Tolerance, 1917–1947
Mobility, race and the politicisation of Indian students in Britain before the Second World War
Indian students in Britain before the Second World War were a sizeable social group who exerted noticeable influence on Indian nationalism and on British institutions and society. The politics of race and empire were mediated through British schools and universities in this period with consequences for Indian students, and their peers. This article discusses the ways in which Indian students were socially segregated in Britain, including facing a…
Indians in London: From the Birth of the East India Company to Independent India, by Arup K. Chatterjee
There is a rich history of the migration, both short- and long-term, of Indians to London from at least the early seventeenth century. The varied nature of Indian presences, settlements, interactions and influences upon the imperial metropole are worth relaying to a wider audience to understand better the connected nature of Indian and English history up until the present. Arup K. Chatterjee’s new book is a welcome addition to the market precisel…
Indian child migration in the British Empire
Historical scholarship on the colonial child and of child emigration in the British Empire has flourished in recent years, but the South Asian child migrant has not figured in these studies. Meanwhile, studies on global Indian migration in the British Empire are part of an exciting, growing field, but young people are rarely considered. This article discusses the rich and growing historiography on Indian overseas migration in the 19th and early 2…
Migration, Institutions and Intimate Lives: Towards a New Agenda’
International audience
The Reception Given to Sadhu Sundar Singh, the Itinerant Indian Christian ‘Mystic’, in Interwar Britain
In 1920 and 1922, an Indian Christian called Sadhu Sundar Singh toured Britain. Widely renowned in the global Christian community in the interwar period, Singh was notorious for certain stories of miracles, for his appearance and for the ways in which he epitomised Eastern Christianity. Using Singh’s correspondence and a range of newspapers, this article argues that British audiences were attracted to Singh because of his appearance and ethnicity…
Migrant Women's Voices: Talking about life and work in the UK since 1945, Linda McDowell
"Migrant Women's Voices: talking about life and work in the UK since 1945, Linda McDowell." Women's History Review, 26(3), pp. 508–509
Indian Messiah: The Attraction of Meher Baba to British Audiences in the 1930s
This article considers the British reception of Meher Baba, an Indian religious figure, who first travelled to Britain in 1931. Following a tradition of Indian religious figures who toured Britain and America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Baba was removed from organised religion and placed emphasis on self‐realisation, and attracted large British followings notably dominated by women. This article argues that the 1930s witnessed a co…
The All-Asian Women's Conference 1931: Indian women and their leadership of a pan-Asian feminist organisation
In January 1931, the All-Asian Women's Conference (AAWC) convened in Lahore. Forty-five female delegates met to discuss common social and political concerns of women in Asia, such as infant mortality, suffrage, education and rights of inheritance. Organised by Indian women, along with the Irish Theosophist Margaret Cousins, the AAWC spoke to visions of pan-Asianism that were reflected by male Indian nationalists at the time. Keen to counteract th…
Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider . By Satnam Virdee.
A Warning Against Quack Doctors': The Old Bailey trial of Indian oculists, 1893
The cataract operation is said to have been perfected by Susruta, the 'Hippocrates of India', some time around the sixth century B.C.E. However, at the end of the nineteenth century in Britain, India's reputation for expertise in ocular surgery was under threat and at the point of being discredited. At this time, a number of Indian oculists were working in Britain, outside the professional medical sector using itinerant methods and forms of adver…
The Staging of Sakuntala in London from 1885 to the 1920s
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Indian Mobilities in the West, 1900–1947: Gender, Performance, Embodiment
The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre: Victorian Anglo-Indian MP and Chancery 'Lunatic' (review)
Reviewed by: The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre: Victorian Anglo-Indian MP and Chancery 'Lunatic' Sumita Mukherjee The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre: Victorian Anglo-Indian MP and Chancery 'Lunatic'. By Michael H. Fisher. (London: Hurst Publications, 2010). From the intrigue of the Mughal court to the British lunatic court, Michael Fisher's biography of David Octherlony Dyce Sombre (1808-51) covers two continents and provides…
Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities: The England-returned
This book examines the role western-education and social standing played in the development of Indian nationalism in the early twentieth century. It highlights the influences that education abroad had on a significant proportion of the Indian population. A large number of Indian students - including key figures such as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Jawaharlal Nehru - took up prominent positions in government service, industr…
Using the Legislative Assembly for Social Reform: The Sarda Act of 1929
In 1929, the Legislative Assembly of India, a body of representative Indian politicians, passed a law making the minimum age of marriage 14 years for girls. In contrast to the debates in the 1890s from which the 1891 Age of Consent Act was passed by the imperial legislature, there were intense debates in 1920s India involving British and Indian social reformers on the issue of marriage. Marriage affected the majority of the population and involve…
The All-Asian Women's Conference 1931: Indian women and their leadership of a pan-Asian feminist organisation
In January 1931, the All-Asian Women's Conference (AAWC) convened in Lahore. Forty-five female delegates met to discuss common social and political concerns of women in Asia, such as infant mortality, suffrage, education and rights of inheritance. Organised by Indian women, along with the Irish Theosophist Margaret Cousins, the AAWC spoke to visions of pan-Asianism that were reflected by male Indian nationalists at the time. Keen to counteract th…
Indian child migration in the British Empire
Historical scholarship on the colonial child and of child emigration in the British Empire has flourished in recent years, but the South Asian child migrant has not figured in these studies. Meanwhile, studies on global Indian migration in the British Empire are part of an exciting, growing field, but young people are rarely considered. This article discusses the rich and growing historiography on Indian overseas migration in the 19th and early 2…
Using the Legislative Assembly for Social Reform: The Sarda Act of 1929
In 1929, the Legislative Assembly of India, a body of representative Indian politicians, passed a law making the minimum age of marriage 14 years for girls. In contrast to the debates in the 1890s from which the 1891 Age of Consent Act was passed by the imperial legislature, there were intense debates in 1920s India involving British and Indian social reformers on the issue of marriage. Marriage affected the majority of the population and involve…
Migration, Institutions and Intimate Lives: Towards a New Agenda’
International audience
A Warning Against Quack Doctors': The Old Bailey trial of Indian oculists, 1893
The cataract operation is said to have been perfected by Susruta, the 'Hippocrates of India', some time around the sixth century B.C.E. However, at the end of the nineteenth century in Britain, India's reputation for expertise in ocular surgery was under threat and at the point of being discredited. At this time, a number of Indian oculists were working in Britain, outside the professional medical sector using itinerant methods and forms of adver…
Using the Legislative Assembly for Social Reform: The Sarda Act of 1929
In 1929, the Legislative Assembly of India, a body of representative Indian politicians, passed a law making the minimum age of marriage 14 years for girls. In contrast to the debates in the 1890s from which the 1891 Age of Consent Act was passed by the imperial legislature, there were intense debates in 1920s India involving British and Indian social reformers on the issue of marriage. Marriage affected the majority of the population and involve…
Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities: The England-returned
This book examines the role western-education and social standing played in the development of Indian nationalism in the early twentieth century. It highlights the influences that education abroad had on a significant proportion of the Indian population. A large number of Indian students - including key figures such as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Jawaharlal Nehru - took up prominent positions in government service, industr…
The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre: Victorian Anglo-Indian MP and Chancery 'Lunatic' (review)
Reviewed by: The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre: Victorian Anglo-Indian MP and Chancery 'Lunatic' Sumita Mukherjee The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre: Victorian Anglo-Indian MP and Chancery 'Lunatic'. By Michael H. Fisher. (London: Hurst Publications, 2010). From the intrigue of the Mughal court to the British lunatic court, Michael Fisher's biography of David Octherlony Dyce Sombre (1808-51) covers two continents and provides…
Indian Mobilities in the West, 1900–1947: Gender, Performance, Embodiment
The Staging of Sakuntala in London from 1885 to the 1920s
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
A Warning Against Quack Doctors': The Old Bailey trial of Indian oculists, 1893
The cataract operation is said to have been perfected by Susruta, the 'Hippocrates of India', some time around the sixth century B.C.E. However, at the end of the nineteenth century in Britain, India's reputation for expertise in ocular surgery was under threat and at the point of being discredited. At this time, a number of Indian oculists were working in Britain, outside the professional medical sector using itinerant methods and forms of adver…
Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider . By Satnam Virdee.
Indian Messiah: The Attraction of Meher Baba to British Audiences in the 1930s
This article considers the British reception of Meher Baba, an Indian religious figure, who first travelled to Britain in 1931. Following a tradition of Indian religious figures who toured Britain and America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Baba was removed from organised religion and placed emphasis on self‐realisation, and attracted large British followings notably dominated by women. This article argues that the 1930s witnessed a co…
The All-Asian Women's Conference 1931: Indian women and their leadership of a pan-Asian feminist organisation
In January 1931, the All-Asian Women's Conference (AAWC) convened in Lahore. Forty-five female delegates met to discuss common social and political concerns of women in Asia, such as infant mortality, suffrage, education and rights of inheritance. Organised by Indian women, along with the Irish Theosophist Margaret Cousins, the AAWC spoke to visions of pan-Asianism that were reflected by male Indian nationalists at the time. Keen to counteract th…
The Reception Given to Sadhu Sundar Singh, the Itinerant Indian Christian ‘Mystic’, in Interwar Britain
In 1920 and 1922, an Indian Christian called Sadhu Sundar Singh toured Britain. Widely renowned in the global Christian community in the interwar period, Singh was notorious for certain stories of miracles, for his appearance and for the ways in which he epitomised Eastern Christianity. Using Singh’s correspondence and a range of newspapers, this article argues that British audiences were attracted to Singh because of his appearance and ethnicity…
Migrant Women's Voices: Talking about life and work in the UK since 1945, Linda McDowell
"Migrant Women's Voices: talking about life and work in the UK since 1945, Linda McDowell." Women's History Review, 26(3), pp. 508–509
Migration, Institutions and Intimate Lives: Towards a New Agenda’
International audience
Indian child migration in the British Empire
Historical scholarship on the colonial child and of child emigration in the British Empire has flourished in recent years, but the South Asian child migrant has not figured in these studies. Meanwhile, studies on global Indian migration in the British Empire are part of an exciting, growing field, but young people are rarely considered. This article discusses the rich and growing historiography on Indian overseas migration in the 19th and early 2…
Mobility, race and the politicisation of Indian students in Britain before the Second World War
Indian students in Britain before the Second World War were a sizeable social group who exerted noticeable influence on Indian nationalism and on British institutions and society. The politics of race and empire were mediated through British schools and universities in this period with consequences for Indian students, and their peers. This article discusses the ways in which Indian students were socially segregated in Britain, including facing a…
Indians in London: From the Birth of the East India Company to Independent India, by Arup K. Chatterjee
There is a rich history of the migration, both short- and long-term, of Indians to London from at least the early seventeenth century. The varied nature of Indian presences, settlements, interactions and influences upon the imperial metropole are worth relaying to a wider audience to understand better the connected nature of Indian and English history up until the present. Arup K. Chatterjee’s new book is a welcome addition to the market precisel…
David Holland. Imperial Heartland: Immigration, Working-class Culture and Everyday Tolerance, 1917–1947
Mariners: Race, Religion and Empire. Special Issue: Introduction
Race, Religion and the Lascar’s Body in British Port Cities, C.1815–1914
The South Asian child in colonial East Africa
Worldly Afterlives: Tracing Family Trails between India and Empire by Julia Stephens
History (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · History (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works)