Veena Talwar Oldenburg is Professor of History at

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and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is best known for her widely reviewed book on Dowry murder. Oldenburg is a native of

Lucknow, India Lucknow (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is also the second largest urban agglomeration in Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division ...

. She has a bachelor's degree from Loreto Convent College and an M.A. from the

University of Lucknow The University of Lucknow (informally known as Lucknow University, and LU) is a public state university based in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Founded in 1920, the University of Lucknow is one of the oldest government owned institutions of higher ed ...

. She has a second master's from the

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which she earned shortly after immigrating to the United States in 1970 and a Ph.D. from the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

. Oldenburg has previously taught at Sarah Lawrence College and

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. She is a 2016 Fulbright Nehru Senior Scholar.

Works

She has authored a number of books on Indian history: * ''The Making of Colonial Lucknow, 1856-1877'' Princeton, N.J. : 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, no. 2, (2007): 484 ** Review, ''

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'', 10, no. 1 (2006): 117-118 ** Review, Estudios de Asia y Africa. 40, no. 3, (2005): 709 ** Review, The Indian economic and social history review. 41, no. 4, (2004): 516 * Lifestyle as resistance: the case of the courtesans of Lucknow. \

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