Background
She was the youngest daughter of prominent historian and mathematician, Doctor of Divinity Kosambi, and granddaughter of Acharya Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi, a Buddhist scholar and a Pāli language expert.
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Meera Kosambi
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She received a Doctor of Philosophy in sociology from the University of Stockholm and she has authored several books and articles on urban sociology and women"s studies in India.
Career
She served for nearly a decade as the director of the Research Centre for Women"s Studies at the SNDT University for Women, Mumbai. Her much acclaimed work is on India"s 19th century feminist Pandita Ramabai, whose writings she compiled, edited and translated from Marathi. Kosambi died at a private hospital in Pune on 26 February 2015 after a brief illness aged 75.
