MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
South Asian Studies Council

Janam Mukherjee

South Asian Studies Council
Academic Year: 2012-13

Janam Mukherjee is a Program Fellow in Agrarian Studies for 2012-2013. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in the History and Anthropology Program in 2011. Dr. Mukherjee will spend his fellowship year at the program refining his dissertation, entitled “Hungry Bengal: War, Famine, Riots, and the End of Empire 1939-1946”, into a scholarly publication. His work looks at the interconnected events of this time period through the lens of hunger to reconstruct a complex account of the of India’s journey to independence.