Mahua Mukherjee is an exponent, pioneer researcher who has revived the Indian Classical Dance form Gaudiya Nritya. She is a retired professor of Dept of Dance and former Dean of Faculty of Fine Arts of Rabindra Bharati University. Along with her husband Amitava Mukherjee, she has been reviving the dance style through her career in the 1980s. She has also given performances and lectures as a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Oklahoma, USA. A few of her awards and titles are listed below: 1. EZCC - Guru title, 2002 2. FICCI - FLO, Kolkata Chapter, 25 Yr celebration - Best Women Achiever Award, 2009 3. Best Speaker Award, 150 yr celebration of Tagore's Birth Anniversary - Shrimata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu, 2012. 4. Jagatram Award, Mejia Book Fair, 2014 5. Saraswathi Educational Cultural & Charitable Trust, Kapileswar Temple, Chenna conferred - ' Gaud deshi Nayaki' title 6.Raseshwar Saikia Barbayan Sattriya Award, Gwahati, 2024. She has also served as Tagore Chair Professor at the University of Dhaka for two years. She has learned dance from several gurus like Shashi Mahato ( Nachni), Narottam Sanyal ( Kirtan), Padmashree Gambhir Singh Mudha ( Chhow), Padmabhushan Kalanidhi Narayanan ( Abhinaya), Guru Manabendu Bandyopadhyay ( Shastra) etc. Mahua Mukherjee is also the founder dance director of the institute Gaudiya Nritya Bharati and former director of Mitrayan. She is an M.Sc., Ph.D. in Botany from Calcutta University. She has also been the subject of a poem written by Nigerian writer Tanure Ojaide published in his collection " The Beauty I have seen : A Trilogy." She also features in documentary films - Dance of God ( 1997), Geetamay Tanmay - Trance in Motion ( 2012) made by Film Division - Govt.of India, Resurrection ( Rajyasabha TV Channel 2013), Gaydiya Nritya - Golden Glory A Classical Dance of Bengal ( SNA 2017) and many others. She has about 20 books and more than 180 articles to her credit. More than 50 students have received junior and senior scholarships and fellowships from Govt.of India under her guidance. Many students have completed their doctorate degrees in the field of Gaudiya Nritya, under her able guidance.