Mithi Mukherjee is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Born and raised in India, she has a Ph.D in History from the University of Chicago. She is the author of "Asianism and the Fall of Empire: India's Road to Freedom (UC Press, 2026) and "India in the Shadows of Empire: A Legal and Political History (1774-1950)" (OUP, 2010). Professor Mukherjee researches and teaches on the legal, political, and cultural history of modern India, the British Empire, Asianism, anticolonialism and nationalism, human rights, Gandhian thought, and constitutional history.Mithi Mukherjee is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Born and raised in India, she has a Ph.D in History from the University of Chicago. She is the author of "Asianism and the Fall of Empire: India's Road to Freedom (UC Press, 2026) and "India in the Shadows of Empire: A Legal and Political History (1774-1950)" (OUP, 2010). Professor Mukherjee researches and teaches on the legal, political, and cultural history of modern India, the British Empire, Asianism, anticolonialism and nationalism, human rights, Gandhian thought, and constitutional history....more