Sumita Mukherjee

Sumita Mukherjee is a historian of British Empire and Indian Subcontinent. She is Professor of History at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities: The England-Returned; Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks (2018) and Imperial Footprints: A History of South Asian Child Migrants in Britain (2026).

Her work focuses primarily on the transnational mobility of South Asian people during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Career Mukherjee has been awarded a BA degree from Durham University as well as a MSt and PhD from University of Oxford. As of 2024, she is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Deputy Editor of the academic journal Women's History Review.