Pritha Mukherjee is an interdisciplinary researcher at the University of Reading. Her doctoral research focusses on pirated books networks in the contemporary Indian book market. Her current research project examines how interactions between Indian and international publishers at Frankfurt and London book fairs contributed to the development of trade book fairs in India and shaped the contours of the multilingual Indian publishing industry.
During her fellowship at the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing, she will be documenting how India and its book market were represented at the Frankfurt and London Book Fairs (between 1970 and 1999) and map the functions these book fairs fulfilled in relation to the changing international and national publishing contexts.