Radhakamal Mukerjee

Radhakamal Mukerjee (7 December 1889–24 August 1968) was an Indian social scientist who was Professor of Economics and Sociology and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lucknow.

Mukerjee played an important and constructive role in the Indian independence movement.

[1] Mukerjee was the son of a barrister in Baharampur, West Bengal, a city located some 185 km north of Kolkata.

He grew up in a household with a scholarly focus and a library devoted to history, literature, the law and Sanskrit texts.

[4] Mukerjee opened the discourse of the Ashtavakra Gita into English with his posthumous work published in 1971.