Gangeya Mukherji
Date of Birth
9 February, 1965
Contact
C- 404 Lotus Apartments
49/39 Tashkant Marg
Allahabad-211001
India
E-mail: gangeyamukherji@gmail.com
Education
· B. A. English, History, Political Science; University of Allahabad; 1985
· M. A. English Literature; University of Allahabad; 1989
· Ph. D. ‘The Vision of India in Tagore and Vivekananda: A Comparative Study with Special Reference to their Prose Works’; University of Allahabad; 2007
· Awarded Junior Research Fellowship of the University Grants Commission in 1989
Areas of Special Interest
Intellectual history with a focus on capacious concepts; The imagining of modern India with special reference to 19th & early 20th century Bengal; Vivekananda; Tagore; Gandhi; Post Colonialism.
Professional Experience
Visiting Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, January – July, 2018.
Teaching English since 1990 at Mahamati Prannath Mahavidyalaya, Mau- Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India. Current designation: Associate Professor of English.
Research Affiliations
Sabarmati Fellow at Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust, Ahmedabad, during May-June 2017.
Fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, for two years during 2008-2010.
Associate-ship of the UGC Inter University Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences, at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, one month every year during 2004-2006.
Books
Gandhi and Tagore: Politics, Truth, and Conscience, Oxon; Delhi: Routledge, 2016.
An Alternative Idea of India: Tagore and Vivekananda, Delhi; London: Routledge, 2017; 2011.
Edited Volumes
Learning Non-Violence, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Exploring Agency in the Mahabharata: Ethical and Political Dimensions of Dharma, co-edited with Sibesh Chandra Bhattacharya & Vrinda Dalmiya, Oxon; Delhi: Routledge, 2018.
Contributions to Volumes
Entry on ‘Ahimsa / Himsa / Satya / Asatya / Shanti', in Peter Ronald deSouza & Rukmini Bhaya Nair (eds), Indian Keywords Lexicon, London: Bloomsbury UK, forthcoming, 2020.
‘Complexities in the Agency for Violence: A Look at the Mahabharata’ in Sibesh Chandra Bhattacharya, Vrinda Dalmiya & Gangeya Mukherji (eds), Exploring Agency in the Mahabharata: Ethical and Political Dimensions of Dharma, Oxon; Delhi: Routledge, 2018.
‘Introduction: To Do’ with Vrinda Dalmiya in Sibesh Chandra Bhattacharya, Vrinda Dalmiya & Gangeya Mukherji (eds), Exploring Agency in the Mahabharata: Ethical and Political Dimensions of Dharma, Oxon; Delhi: Routledge, 2018.
‘Introduction’ in Gangeya Mukherji (ed.), Learning Non-Violence, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016.
‘Himsa-Ahimsa in the Mahabharata: The Lonely Position of Yudhishthira’ in Arindam Chakrabarti and Sibaji Bandyopadhyay (eds), Mahabharata Now: Narration, Aesthetics, Ethics, Delhi; London: Routledge, 2014.
‘Reading King Lear: The Evil of Lying and the Perception of Truth’, in Shormistha Panja (ed.), Shakespeare and the Art of Lying, Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2013.
‘Nehru and Later’, in Neelum Saran Gour (ed.), Allahabad: Where the Rivers Meet, Mumbai: Marg Publications, Vol. 61 No. 1, September 2009.
‘Tagore as Public Intellectual’, in Shreesh Chaudhury et al (eds.), Reflections On English Studies: Essays In Memory of Shankarnand Palit, Darbhanga: Panchjanya Trust Pindarauch, 2009.
Ongoing and Future Projects
Invited by Routledge India to compile a selection of the writings of Mahatma Gandhi, entitled, Gandhi: A Contemporary Reader. The manuscript is expected to be complete by July 2020.
Invited by Routledge India to write a monograph on the biographies of Mahatma Gandhi; title to finalised. The manuscript is expected to be complete by June 2021.
Papers
‘Bhagavad Gita in Modern India’ with Sanjay Palshikar, in Oxford Bibliographies in Hinduism. Ed. Tracy Coleman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. URL:
https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195399318/obo-9780195399318-0229.xml?rskey=JtpHXr&result=4
‘Gandhi: The Recognition of Political Temptation’, IIC Quarterly, New Delhi: India International Centre, vol. 46 Autumn 2019, Number 2, pp. 127-37.
‘Vivekananda: The ethics of responsibility and the imagining of Modern India’, Occasional Paper: History and Society, New Series, 52, New Delhi: Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 2014.
‘Thinking Community and Nation: Relevance of Vivekananda’, IIC Quarterly, New Delhi: India International Centre, Summer 2012, vol. 39, Number 1, pp. 20-29.
‘Open Texture of Nationalism: Tagore as Nationalist’, Rupkatha Journal: On Interdisciplinary Studies, [An Online open-access E-Journal, http://www. rupkatha.com/]; Special issue on Rabindranath Tagore, 150 Years, vol. 2, no. 4, November 2010, pp. 373-384.
‘Gandhi: Non-Violence and Pragmatism’, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, vol. XVI, nos. 1 & 2, 2009, pp. 95-117.
‘Exploring Non Violence: A Seminar Report’, Economic & Political Weekly, Mumbai: Sameeksha Trust, vol. XLIV, no. 24, June 13-19, 2009, pp. 23-25.
‘Tagore in the Context of Postcolonialism’, Sandhan, New Delhi: Centre For Studies In Civilizations, vol. VIII, no. 1 Jan-June 2008, pp. 27-93.
‘Tagore: Transcending Post Colonial Attitudes’, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, vol. XII, no. 2, Winter 2005, pp. 75-95.
‘The Myriad Voices of The Indian Renaissance: Transmutation of the Regional to the Universal’, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, vol. XI, no. 1, Summer 2004, pp. 93-120.
‘A Philosophy for Disarmament?’, Seminar, New Delhi: Rameshraj Trust, 532 – December 2003.
‘Synthesizing Modernity & Tradition: the Relevance of Vivekananda’, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, vol. VII, no. 2, 2000, pp. 83-107.
‘Modern Indian Education and Human Values’, Mainstream, New Delhi: Perspective Publications Private Ltd., Annual, December 23, 2000, pp. 97-102.
‘Vivekananda at the Time of Break-up of Nations’, Mainstream, New Delhi: Perspective Publications Private Ltd., Republic Day Special, vol. XXXVIII, no. 6, Jan 29, 2000, pp. 37-40.
Book reviews
M.K. Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Critical Edition, Introduced with Notes by Tridip Suhrud, New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2018, in Seminar, New Delhi: Rameshraj Trust, 710 – October 2018, pp. 91-92.
Arun Shourie, Two Saints: Speculations Around and About Ramakrishna Paramhamsa and Ramana Maharshi, New Delhi: HarperCollins Publishers India, 2017, in Biblio: A Review of Books, New Delhi, Vol. XXXIII, Nos. 1-3, March-January, 2018, p. 30.
Ramin Jahanbegloo, The Decline of Civilization: Why We Need To Return To Gandhi and Tagore, New Delhi: Aleph Book Company, 2017, in Seminar, New Delhi: Rameshraj Trust, 702 – February 2018, pp. 72-73.
Sudhir Chandra, Gandhi: An Impossible Possibility (trans) Chitra Padmanabhan, London: Routledge, 2017, in The Hindu, Chennai, 28 May 2017, p. 16.
Amiya P. Sen, An Idealist in India: Selected Writings and Speeches of Sister Nivedita, New Delhi: Primus Books, 2016, in The Book Review, New Delhi: The Book Review Literary Trust, Vol. XLI, No: 3, March 2017, pp. 15-16.
Sanjay Palshikar, Evil and the Philosophies of Retribution: Modern Commentaries on the Bhagavad-Gita, Delhi: Routledge, 2014, in Seminar, New Delhi: Rameshraj Trust, 662 –October 2014, pp. 79-82.
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Home Rule [Hind Swaraj]: A Centenary Edition with an Introduction by S. R.
Mehrotra, New Delhi & Chicago: Promilla & Co., Publishers in association with Bibliophile South Asia, 2010, in Summerhill: IIAS Review, Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, vol. XVI, No. 1, (Summer 2010), pp. 85-86.
Commissioned papers
‘Statement of Outstanding Universal Value and Justification of Criteria’ as Consultant for the team preparing the Dossier for the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, for nominating Santiniketan as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
‘South Asian Philosophies of Peace: Tagore and Vivekananda’, for the Nelson Mandela Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, 2009.
Convenor of Seminars/Schools
Convener of International Seminar on “Exploring Non Violence”, organised at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, during October 20-22, 2008.
Convener of International Seminar on “The Home and the World: Rabindranath Tagore”, sponsored by Ministry of Culture, Government of India, and organised at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, during November 14-16, 2011.
One of the Coordinators of the Summer School on “Exploring Agency in the Mahabharata: Ethical, Political and Dharmic”, organised at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, during September 17-30, 2012.
Coordinator of the Winter School on “Life and Thought of Gandhi”, organised at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, during December 1-15, 2016.