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'''Sita Narasimhan''' (15 June 1929 - 19 February 2013) was an Indian academic.<br />
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==Personal life== <br />
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Narasimhan was born in [[Madras]] (Chennai), South India, the daughter of Padmini and [[V. K. Thiruvenkatachari]], who was Advocate General of Madras State. <br />
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Sita Narasimhan was married to Professor R. Narasimhan (1926-2007), doyen of Indian Computer science, designer of India's first general purpose computer, first President of the Computer Society of India, who spent much of his working life at the [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]]. In 2011 with their daughter Tanjam Jacobson and Dr Krishna Bharat, Sita set up an endowment for memorial lectures at the TIFR in her husband's name. <br />
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Sita died at her daughter Tanjam Jacobson's home near Washington, D.C., 19 February 2013. <br />
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==Academic life== <br />
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Sita Narasimhan studied at [[Newnham College, Cambridge]] from 1947 to 1950, studying first the Part II English Tripos and then the Part II Economics Tripos. She was the Dorothy Stevenson Scholar.<ref>{{cite book |title=Newnham College Register, vol II |date=1981 |publisher=Newnham College |page=305}}</ref> <br />
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She became lecturer in English Literature at [[Miranda House]] in New Delhi, and at [[Presidency College, Chennai|Presidency College]], Madras. <br />
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She returned to Cambridge as a Commonwealth Scholar in 1960-61, moving to Victoria College in Toronto 1961-62.<ref>{{cite book |title=Newnham College Register, vol II |date=1981 |publisher=Newnham College |page=305}}</ref> <br />
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She subsequently became Lecturer and Director of Studies in English Literature at [[Newnham College, Cambridge]], from 1966 to 1979.<ref>{{cite book |title=Newnham College Register, vol II |date=1981 |publisher=Newnham College |page=305}}</ref> She was the first woman of colour to be a Senior Member of Newnham College. At Newnham, one of Sita Narasimhan's students was [[Patricia Hewitt]], the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] politician now Chair of the UK India Business Council. Speaking about Sita, Hewitt was quoted in ''[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]]'' saying "I found myself in the extraordinary position of being a young Australian student, reading English literature at one of the oldest British universities, with a director of studies who was Indian — Sita Narasimhan was a wonderful scholar of English literature but also brought a very deep knowledge of Sanskrit."<ref>{{cite news|work=Telegraph India|title=Love and Loss in London|last1=Roy|first1=Amit|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090322/jsp/7days/story_10705882.jsp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120522071844/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090322/jsp/7days/story_10705882.jsp|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 22, 2012}}</ref><br />
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She made an in depth study of Hindu religious texts. In 1983, she wrote a biographical essay on another iconic woman, "[[Joan Robinson]]: In the Radical Vein. A Laywoman's Homage", in the ''Cambridge Journal of Economics''. Her published books include ''Saivism Under The Imperial Cholas as revealed through their Monuments''. She had close connections with [[Mahatma Gandhi]] with whom she walked. <br />
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Among her publications was a translation of Talks by [[Vinoba Bhave]] on the [[Bhagavad Gita]].<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.vangalheritage.com/vangal Vangal Family Tree]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071107181738/http://www.hindu.com/2007/09/04/stories/2007090455531100.htm]<br />
*http://www.tifr.res.in/~endowment/images/RN-AwardMOU.pdf<br />
*https://web.archive.org/web/20140930234339/http://www.tifr.res.in/~endowment/index.php/prof-r-narasimhan<br />
*http://cmc-fellow.wikidot.com/eightieth-birthday-of-the-giant<br />
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=xuKWGk6WPAEC&dq=sita+narasimhan+at+cambridge&pg=PA519 Joan Robinson: A Laywoman's Homage]<br />
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