Education
University of Illinois system. University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. University of Bridgeport.
University of Lucknow.
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Veena Talwar Oldenburg
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She is best known for her widely reviewed book on Dowry murder. Oldenburg is a native of Lucknow, India. She has a bachelor"s degree from Loreto Convent College and an Master of Arts from the University of Lucknow.
She has a second masters to from the University of Bridgeport which she earned shortly after immigrating to the United States in 1970 and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Oldernburg has previously taught at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. She has authored a number of books on Indian history:
The Making of Colonial Lucknow, 1856-1877 Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, ©1984.
Dowry murder: the imperial origins of a cultural crime: Oxford. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Review, The American historical review.
112, northern 2, (2007): 484
1 (2006): 117-118
Review, Estudios de Asia y Africa. 40, northern 3, (2005): 709
Review, The Indian economic and social history review.
41, northern 4, (2004): 516
Lifestyle as resistance: the case of the courtesans of Lucknow.
She is a 2016 Fulbright Nehru Senior Scholar.
