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Veena Talwar Oldenburg
 

Ph. D. University of Illinois
Academic Affiliation: Associate Professor, Baruch
Office phone: 646-312-4330
Email: VTO5946@yahoo.com

Field of Scholarship

Indian History, British Colonialism, Women's History

Selected Publications

The Making of Colonial Lucknow, 1856--1877 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984)

Articles/Reviews/Essays:

"The Roop Kanwar Case" and "The Continuing Invention of the Sati Tradition" in John St. Howley, Sati: The Blessing and the Curse (NY: Oxford University Press, 1994).

"Lifestyle as Resistance: The Case of the Courtesans of Lucknow," Feminist Studies, Summer 1990.

Works in Progress:
Dowry Murders: Reinvestigating A Cultural Whodunit

 
 
 
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