Background
Sujit Mukherjee was born in the village of Ariadaha, south of Calcutta, and educated at Saint Xavier"s High School, Patna, Patna College (Master of Arts) and the University of Pennsylvania (Doctor of Philosophy).
Sujit Mukherjee was born in the village of Ariadaha, south of Calcutta, and educated at Saint Xavier"s High School, Patna, Patna College (Master of Arts) and the University of Pennsylvania (Doctor of Philosophy).
Patna University; University of Pennsylvania.
He taught at Patna College, at the National Defence Academy in Khadakwasla, and at the University of Poona before joining Orient Longman in 1970, where he served as Chief Publisher until 1986. He was a prolific writer on a range of literary topics, as well as a translator from Bangla into English. Despite having to wear thick glasses to make up for his myopia, he had a long career as a batsman in university, club and first-class cricket.
He played five first-class matches as a middle-order batsman for Bihar between 1951 and 1960.
He made his highest score, 33, in his first innings in 1951-1952. Returning to the side for Bihar"s last Ranji Trophy game in 1958-1959, he made the equal top score for the match, 17 not out, in the second innings in a match in Patna in which only 188 runs were scored for the loss of 32 wickets.
After being dismissed for 49 in their first innings, Bihar needed 45 to beat Orissa and were 19 for 2 when Mukherjee came to the wicket and shared an unbroken partnership of 27, the highest partnership of the match, to take Bihar to victory. He became a noted cricket writer, "a wry observer of both the game and academic pretentiousness" who produced "five elegant cricket books".
Ramachandra Guha described them as "the finest books ever written on cricket by an Indian".
Mukherjee also did radio commentary for Test cricket between 1975 and 1978. The Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Hyderabad inaugurated the annual in 2014. Lecturers and the titles of their lectures have been:
2014: Nabaneeta Development Senator – "Translations and Multilingualism"
2015: Indra Nath Choudhuri – "The Idea of an Indian Literature"
2016: Sukanta Chaudhuri – "My Tagore, Your Tagore: Translation and Textual Identity".