Participant Info
- First Name
- Mou
- Last Name
- Banerjee
- Country
- United States
- State
- moubanerjee082007@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- UW-Madison
- Website URL
- https://history.wisc.edu/people/banerjee-mou/
- Keywords
- South Asia; India; Colonialism; British Imperial History; Religion; Politics; Intellectual History
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Academics:
I received my Ph.D. from the Dept. of History at Harvard in 2018. My first book, The Disinherited: Christianity and Conversion in Colonial India is forthcoming from Harvard University Press in January 2025. The book-project is an intellectual and political history of the creation of the Indian political self – a self that emerged through an often-oppositional relationship with evangelical Christianity and the apologetic debates arising out of such engagements.
My research was funded by the award of the 2013 SSRC-IDRF dissertation research fellowship which enabled me to conduct research at multiple archives in the UK, in India and in Bangladesh. My dissertation was awarded the Harold K. Gross award, which is granted annually by the faculty of the History Department at Harvard to the graduate student whose dissertation ‘gave greatest promise of a distinguished career of historical research.”
My second book, under contract with Juggernaut Press, India, is an intellectual history of the life and times of the pioneering Indian social reformer Raja Rammohan Roy.
My research interests include the religion and politics in India, the history of gender, hunger and food politics, and the history of borders and immigration in colonial South Asia. Prior to my appointment at UW-Madison, I was College fellow at the Department of South Asian Studies at Harvard in 2018 and Assistant Professor of History at Clemson University in 2018-19.
- Recent Publications
Banerjee M. Between Swadesh (a Land of One’s Own) and Swajan (One’s Own People): Political Theology and Being Muslim in Bengal in the Late Nineteenth Century. 2022.
. The Tale of the Tailor: Munshi Mohammad Meherullah and Muslim–Christian Apologetics in Bengal, 1885–1907. South Asian Studies [Internet]. 2017. Publisher’s Version
. “They all belong to the school of Adam Smith”: The dissemination of Adam Smith’s ideas in Calcutta in the nineteenth century. Cmbridge: Harvard University; 2015
. Christ in the Paintings of Jamini Ray. Literature and Criticism. 2008;6 (1)
. Milton: Parrhesiastes/Prophet. The Atlantic Critical Review. 2008;7 (3)
- Media Coverage
- https://www.npr.org/2022/09/12/1122238140/queen-elizabeth-ii-death-commonwealth-countries-colonial-history
- Social Media
- x.com/moubanerjee28
- Country Focus
- India; Bangladesh; Pakistan; Afghanistan; Sri Lanka
- Expertise by Geography
- Asia, England, India, Southeast Asia, United Kingdom
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Book History, Colonialism, Family, Food History, Gender, Government, Law, Libraries & Archives, Local & Regional, Migration & Immigration, Politics, Public History, Rebellion & Revolution, Religion, Rural & Agrarian History, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Women
