[1] DP Mukerji was born to Bhupatinath Mukherjee and Elokeshi Devi at his maternal uncle's house at Chatra near Sreerampur in the district of Hoogli in Bengal Presidency during British rule in India.
[2] He started his teaching career at Bangabasi College, Calcutta but soon he got an offer from the newly founded University of Lucknow where he joined as a lecturer in Economics and Sociology in 1922.
Mukerji was arguably one of the leading intellectuals of his times who impacted life and thoughts of his many students such as P. C. Joshi, T. N. Madan, Ashok Mitra, A. K. Saran, and V. B. Singh.
"[3] He worked for the UP government under Govind Ballabh Pant (1937–40) as Director of Information and created Bureau of Economics and Statistics.
A collection of his essays, Redefining Humanism[5] was published by Srobona Munshi which was well received in academic circle and help establish Prof. Mukerji's image as one of the top intellectuals of modern India.