"Her writing, both fictional and non-fictional, belongs to the growing category of immigrant literature that explores the complex cross-cultural forces which structure the diasporic experience."
Child of the Sub-Continent
Mukherjee was born in 1940, the second of three daughters in an upper-middle class Hindu Brahmin family. Her father was a chemist, and she grew up in a tightly bound and intellectual family. Extended in the most extreme sense, Mukherjee's family included almost fifty relatives with whom she lived until the age of eight. As a result of the family's intellectual tradition, Mukherjee and her sisters all had the opportunity for academic advancement. When her father was given a job in England, he brought his family with him, and for the next four years they all lived in that country, giving Mukherjee the opportunity to further her English language proficiency.
Returning to India, Mukherjee eventually graduated from the University of Calcutta, with honors, in 1959, and then attended the University of Baroda in India, studying English and Ancient Indian Culture.
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