Career

A professor of Economics at Allahabad University, Uttar Pradesh, India, he is best known as a close devotee of Neem Karoli Baba (known to his devotees as Maharajji). This continued until Neem Karoli"s death in 1973. After Neem Karoli"s death, Mukerjee wrote two English-language books about him: By His Grace: A Devotee"s Story, and The Near and the Dear: Stories of Neem Karoli Baba and His Devotees.

These works are, in part, autobiographical as well.

Mukerjee is also mentioned in passing in Ram Dass"s book Miracle of Love: Stories about Neem Karoli Baba. Mukerjee and Jawaharlal Nehru were college classmates.

There is at least one existing picture of them together, which is published in.