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PROFESSOR RILA MUKHERJEE

Professor, Department of History, School of Social Sciences
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

Rila Mukherjee is Professor in History, University of Hyderabad, India.
Mukherjee has a PhD in Sciences Economiques (‘Commerce etMarchandsautour
de Kasimbazar, 1704-1750’) from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales, Paris. Apart from French, her language skills are English, Bengali,
Hindi, and limited Portuguese and Spanish. Her interests are in maritime and
world history. She is also Chief Editor of the Brill journal Asian Review of World
Histories. Mukherjee was Visiting Professor in Paris, Aix en Provence, Shanghai,
Kolkata, Santiniketan and Uppsala, and Visiting Scholar in Tokyo, Berlin, and
Madrid. She is/has been a partner in the European Science Foundation project
on Dynamic Cooperative Networks [DynCoopNet] (2007-2010; the ANR project
L’OceanIndien et la Mediterranee: DeuxMondes en Miroir (2009-13); the Arts
and Humanities Research Council, UK partition project from 2009; and the
Murdoch University project on History and Natural Hazards from 2016. She is
project reviewer for the European Science Foundation, the Slovenian Research
Agency and the Danish Humanities Research Council. Her recent co-edited
publications are From Mountains Fastness to Coastal Kingdoms: Hard Money
and ‘Cashless’ Economies in the Medieval Bay of Bengal World (Manohar,
2019), Cross-Cultural Networking in the eastern Indian Ocean Realm (Primus
2019) and Indian Ocean Histories: The Many Worlds of Michael Naylor Pearson
(Routledge, 2020).

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