Dr Jayashree Mukhopadhyay, Reader & Head
jm.hist@presidencycollegekolkata.ac.in, mukherjee_jaysaree@yahoo.co.in
Area of Specialisation: Social and Cultural History of Modern India and History of the USA

Academic Profile
PhD (JU, 1992), MA (,1985), BA (Presidency College)

Specialisation & Area of Interest
Social and Cultural History of Modern India and History of the USA

Area of Research
• The Ramakrishna Vivekananda Movement
• Tribal History e.g. the Mundas
• Benoy Sarkar
• Folk Culture

Publications
• The Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Movement : Impact on Indian Society and Politics (1893-1922), Firma KLM. , Calcutta, 1997
• The Munda Resistance Movement in the Nineteenth Century published in S. Bhattacharya edited Mountains and Forests in Indian History, Institute of Historical Studies, Kolkata, 2004
• Ramakrishna Mission in the Swadeshi Days published in T.Sengupta and S. Roy edited Contesting Colonialism : Partition and Swadeshi Revisited, Macmillan, New Delhi, 2007

Ongoing Research
•  Benoy Sarkar and Folk Culture
• Gender, Community Services and the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Movement

Areas of Interest
• Social History of Modern India
• Cultural History of Modern India
• History of the USA
• Early Medieval Indian History
• Greek History