keywords
- Modern Indian History, Asian History, Law and Empire, Colonialism and Nationalism, History of International Law, Human Rights, Political Trials, Indian Constitutional History, Gandhian thought, Postcolonial theory
- Contact Info
Mukherjee, Mithi
Positions
- Associate Professor, History
Research Areas
Research
Publications
selected publications
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book
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journal article
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Imperial exception: Judges, lawyers and the making of the law of evidence in post-1857 British India.
South Asia.
2025
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The Nonviolent Struggle for Indian Freedom, 1905-19.
American Historical Review.
1638-1640.
2021
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Sedition, Law, and the British Empire in India: The Trial of Tilak (1908).
Law, Culture and the Humanities.
454-476.
2020
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The "Right to Wage War" against Empire: Anticolonialism and the Challenge to International Law in the Indian National Army Trial of 1945.
Law & Social Inquiry.
420-443.
2019
- Dharma, Law, and Individualism in the Age of Empire: Literature of the Colonized in British India. Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. 11-11. 2019
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Introduction.
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
599-604.
2014
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Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India.
American Historical Review.
503-504.
2014
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THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN INDIA: A Liberal Empire?.
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
625-630.
2014
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A Review of “India in the Shadows of Empire: A Legal and Political History, 1774–1950”.
History.
126-126.
2011
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Transcending Identity: Gandhi, Nonviolence, and the Pursuit of a "Different" Freedom in Modern India.
American Historical Review.
453-473.
2010
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'A World of Illusion': The Legacy of Empire in India's Foreign Relations, 1947-62.
International History Review.
253-271.
2010
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A History of the Present.
Law and History Review.
697-702.
2005
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Justice, War, and the Imperium: India and Britain in Edmund Burke's Prosecutorial Speeches in the Impeachment Trial of Warren Hastings.
Law and History Review.
589-630.
2005
- A time for tea: Women, labor and post/colonial politics of an Indian plantation. Labor History. 405-406. 2003
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Imperial exception: Judges, lawyers and the making of the law of evidence in post-1857 British India.
South Asia.
2025
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., University of Chicago 2001
- M.Phil., Jawaharlal Nehru Univ (India) 1992
- M.A., Jawaharlal Nehru Univ (India) 1990
- B.A., Presidency College (India) 1987
awards and honors
International Activities
geographic focus
- India Country