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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 and subsequently lived in Gurgaon, India. She has a bachelor's degree from Loreto Convent College and an M.A. from the——University of Lucknow. She has a second master's 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.

Oldenburg has previously taught at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. She is a 2016 Fulbright Nehru Senior Scholar.

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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, no. 2, (2007): page 484
  • Review, International Journal of Hindu Studies, 10, no. 1 (2006): pages 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): page 516
• Lifestyle as resistance: the case of the courtesans of Lucknow. \
• Gurgaon: From Mythic Village to Millennium City. New York: Harper Collins, 2018.

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