Uponita Mukherjee

Uponita Mukherjee.

Assistant Professor of History
Email: [email protected]
Office: Dealy Hall

  • Columbia University, New York City, NY

    2022. PhD. Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
    Dissertation Title: ‘Colonial Detection: Crime, Evidence, and Inquiry in British India, 1790-1910.’
    Committee: Prof. Partha Chatterjee (Supervisor), Deborah Coen, Brinkley Messick, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Mitra Sharafi.

    2016. M.A. Middle Eastern South Asian and African Studies

    Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Delhi

    2014. M. Phil, Centre for Historical Studies
    Dissertation Title: ‘Murky Murders and Tantalizing Tales: Detection and Story-telling in Colonial Bengal’
    Supervisor: Prof. Tanika Sarkar

    2011. M.A., Modern Indian History, Centre for Historical Studies.

    Presidency College, Kolkata, West Bengal
    B.A. Department of History, 2009.

  • Modern South Asia; British India; Colonialism; History of Science; Forensic Science; Legal History; History of Crime and Policing

  • Uponita Mukherjee's Curriculum Vitae