Veena Talwar Oldenburg (Edited by)

Veena Talwar Oldenburg was born and educated in Lucknow and still has her ancestral home there. She moved to the United States in 1970 and stayed on after her PhD in history to teach and share a life with Philip Oldenburg in New York.
She is currently Professor of History at Baruch College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has written several scholarly articles and published two books, The Making of Colonial Lucknow, 1856-1877 (University of Prioceton Press) and Dowry Murder: The Imperial Origins if a Cultural Crime (Oxford University Press, New York).