Dr. Radhakumud Mookerji started life as a Professor of History at the Bengal National College under the Principalship of the late Sri Aurobindo. Subsequently, he joined Mysore University where he was a Professor of History from 1917 to 1921. Thereafter he became a Professor and Head of the Department of History at Lucknow University and remained there for an unbroken period of twenty-five years. After retirement, he continued to be Emeritus and his friends had endowed a Lectureship in his name. He was a prolific author and had to his credit 15 books on different aspects of ancient India.