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| Author | Meenakshi Mukherjee | 
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| Language | English | 
| Genre | Essays | 
| Publisher | Oxford University Press | 
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| Awards | Sahitya Akademi Award (2003) | 
The Perishable Empire or The Perishable Empire: Essays on Indian Writing in English is an English-language collection of essays written by Meenakshi Mukherjee . [1] [2] The book was first published in 2001 by Oxford University Press and was awarded Sahitya Akademi Award in 2003. [3]