Mithi Mukherjee

Mithi Mukherjee is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  Born and raised in India, she has a Ph.D in History from the University of Chicago.  India in the Shadows of Empire offers a sweeping new interpretation of the complex and seemingly contradictory nature of Indian democracy and polity.  It explains the postcolonial Indian polity by presenting an alternative historical narrative of the British Empire in India and India's struggle for independence under the Indian National Congress and Gandhi.   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 legal and constitutional theory and history Gandhian thought, gender history, postcolonial theory, and subaltern histories. 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, 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.