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	Peterson was born and raised in [[Mumbai]], [[India]]. She came to the United States as an AFS (''American Field Service'') exchange high school student in the late 1960s. She returned to Mumbai and received her B.A. in English literature from The [[University of Mumbai]] and her Ph.D. in Sanskrit from [[Harvard University]] in 1976. She has been a professor at Mount Holyoke since 1982, with a period at [[Columbia University]] from 2002-2004.		Peterson was born and raised in [[Mumbai]], [[India]]. She came to the United States as an AFS (''American Field Service'') exchange high school student in the late 1960s. She returned to Mumbai and received her B.A. in English literature from The [[University of Mumbai]] and her Ph.D. in Sanskrit from [[Harvard University]] in 1976. She has been a professor at Mount Holyoke since 1982, with a period at [[Columbia University]] from 2002 to 2004.

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{{Infobox writer 
|image =
| name = Indira Viswanathan Peterson
| caption = Indira Viswanathan Peterson
| pseudonym =
| birth_date =
| birth_place = [[Mumbai]], [[India]]
| death_date =
| death_place =
| occupation = [[South Asian]] studies
| nationality = [[India]] & [[United States]]
| period =
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| subject = [[Sanskrit]]
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| notableworks =''Poems to Siva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints''
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}}

'''Indira Viswanathan Peterson''' is a literary critic and the ''David B. Truman Professor of Asian Studies'' at [[Mount Holyoke College]]. She is a specialist in [[South Asia]]n Studies.<ref>{{cite news
| url = https://books.google.com/books?q=%22Indira+Viswanathan+Peterson%22&btnG=Search+Books
| title = Citations search: "Indira Viswanathan Peterson" (Google Books)
| accessdate = 2007-11-09
| publisher =
| date =
}}</ref>

==Background==
{{BLP unsourced section|date=April 2019}}
Peterson was born and raised in [[Mumbai]], [[India]]. She came to the United States as an AFS (''American Field Service'') exchange high school student in the late 1960s. She returned to Mumbai and received her B.A. in English literature from The [[University of Mumbai]] and her Ph.D. in Sanskrit from [[Harvard University]] in 1976. She has been a professor at Mount Holyoke since 1982, with a period at [[Columbia University]] from 2002-2004.

==Select scholarship==
* ''Design and Rhetoric in a Sanskrit Court: The Kiratarjuniya of Bharavi'', 2003
* Editor - ''[[W.W. Norton|Norton Anthology of World Literature]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20061231165654/http://www.wwnorton.com/college/titles/english/nawol2/meet_the_editor.htm], 2003
* Editor - ''[[W.W. Norton|Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20060504043100/http://www.wwnorton.com/college/titles/english/nawmsh/meet_the_author.htm], 1997
* ''Poems to Siva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints'', 1989

==See also==
* [[List of Indian Americans]]

==Notes==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060901222647/http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/misc/profile/ipeterso.shtml Official website]
*''[https://web.archive.org/web/20050218142033/http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/111904/peterson.shtml Peterson Comes Home]''

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