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Dr. Radha Kumud Mookherji
Noted historian and politician, Dr. Radha Kumud Mookherji, Ex-M.P., M.A., Ph.D., D.Litt., F.A.S.B., started life as Professor of History in the Bengal National College, under the Principalship of the late Sri Aurobindo. Subsequently he joined the Mysore University where he was Professor of History from 1917 to 1921. Thereafter he became Professor and Head of the Department of History in the Lucknow University and remained there for an unbroken period of twenty-five years. He was also Emeritus Professor of History of the same University where his friends have endowed a Lectureship in his name.
On the political side, he had served as a Member of the Bengal Legislative Council for six years (1937-43) and had been a Member of the Floud Commission for a year and half in 1939-40. In 1946-47, he was appointed a Member of the Indian Delegation to the F.A.O. Preparatory Commission at Washington and was nominated by India’s President as a Member of the Council of States for the period 1952-58. He was also awarded Padmabhushan by the President.
Author of ‘A History of Indian Shipping’, ‘The Fundamental Unity of India’ (from Hindu Sources), etc.
Dr. Mookherji expired in 1963.
ISBN : 978-81-978959-9-9
