Bangladesh, urbanization and social change and colonial exploitation by the East India Company and in Uganda, and also contributed towards designing of National Sample Surveys. He had a Marxian and historical perspective with which he studied social institutions such as family and caste. Awards and honors Asiatic Society Gold Medal for Anthropology (1981) National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research from 1992 to 1994 Swami Pranavanand Education Award for Sociology by University Grants Commission| New Delhi,(1985) by Government of Madhya Pradesh Member-Executive Committee, International Sociological Association| (ISA) (1976) Personal life Mukherjee married Prabhati Mukherjee, an academician, who died in 2008. They had two daughters, both of whom entered the academic field. Selected publications Books Felicitation volumes Selected journal articles References Further reading External links Special lectures commemorating Professor Ramkrishna Mukherjee, 28-29 March 2016 In Memorium Ramkrishna Mukherjee by TNMadan 1917 births 2015 deaths Bengali Hindus Bengali writers Bengali historians 20th-century Bengalis Scholars from Kolkata Indian social sciences writers 20th-century Indian social scientists University of Calcutta alumni Indian anthropologists Indian Marxist historians Indian sociologists Indian Marxist writers People from Baranagar