Radha Kumud Mukherjee, also spelled Radhakumud Mookerji, was an Indian historian. he was a noted Indian nationalist during the period of British colonial rule. He published Indian Shipping: A History of Seaborne Trade and Maritime Activity of the Indians from the Earliest Times in 1912. He was an advocate of the notion of Greater India in which Indian merchants and adventurers with huge fleets brought Indians to Southeast Asia and became the foundation of kingdoms in that region.scholarship in the Southeast Asia regionSuch theories have been largely discredited by modern.
. Following the death of CR Das, he (Nalini Ranjan Sarkar), with Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy, Nirmal Chandra Chunder, Sarat Chandra Bose and Tulsi Chandra Goswami dominated the Congress movement in Bengal and constituted what was known as the "Big Five" of the Bengal Congress. He was elected a Councillor of the Calcutta Municipal Corporation in 1932 and became its Mayor in 1935.
In the month of Aug 1936, litterateur Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Historian Radhakumud Mukhopadhyay, and Politician Tulsi Chandra Goswami came to Santiniketan to fetch Rabindranath Tagore to Calcutta for delivering a lecture there with the intention of forming public opinion against the communal policy of "divide and rule" of the Prime minister of Great Britain Mac Donald.The meeting was arranged in the Town Hall, Calcutta, on 15th July 1936.
Rabindranath did not advocate in favour of protecting the interests of the Hindus, nor he said anything against the increasing demands of the majority of Muslim population. He said, " Indians should only desire for a secular democratic country."
