Veena Talwar Oldenburg

Veena Talwar Oldenburg is Professor of History at Baruch College 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. She has a bachelor's degree from Loreto Convent College and an M.A. 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 Ph.D. 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:

She is a 2016 Fulbright Nehru Senior Scholar.

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