Relooking Radhakumud Mukherjee’s Life and W...

Relooking Radhakumud Mukherjee’s Life and Works

Author Name : Dr. Rahul Kumar Mohanta

ABSTRACT

Radhakumud Mukherjee (1884-1963) was an Indian historian and a noted Indian nationalist during the period of British colonial rule He obtained a doctorate from the University of Calcutta in 1905 and joined  National Council of Education , teaching at the Bengal National College. He published Indian Shipping: A History of Seaborne Trade and Maritime Activity of the Indians from the Earliest Times in 1912. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan  in 1957. My attempt is to revisit his life and works in recent available sources

Keywords: Historian, Nationalist, Indian Shipping, Padma Bhushan