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Radha Kamal Mukerjee

  Radha kamal Mukerjee : Biography and Contribution to Sociology Article by:                                        Anayat  Khan. Radhakamal Mukerjee : Biography and Contribution to Sociology! Radhakamal Mukerjee (1889-1968) along with D.P. Mukerji – his colleague in Lucknow University – and G.S. Ghurye of Bombay University, are considered a great pioneer in sociology in India. Lucknow University was a major centre of sociology and social anthropology. Under the scholarship of the triumvirate – Radhakamal Mukerjee, D.P. Mukerji and D.N. Majumdar – Lucknow soon emerged as a leading centre for social science studies and it remained so until the mid-1960s. Our discussion here is mainly on Radhakamal Mukerjee. Life Sketch : Radhakamal Mukerjee was born on 7th December in 1889 in a large Bengali Brahmin family at Berhampur (Murshidabad), a small country-town in Western Bengal. He spe...