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'''Veena Talwar Oldenburg''' is Professor of History at [[Baruch College]] and [[CUNY Graduate Center|The Graduate Center]] of the [[City University of New York]]. She is best known for her widely reviewed book on [[Dowry murder]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00urdu/umraojan/txt_veena_oldenburg.html |title=Resistance as a Lifestyle |publisher=Columbia.edu |accessdate=August 11, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/186662 |title=Project MUSE |publisher=jhu.edu |accessdate=August 11, 2017}}</ref><br />
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Oldenburg is a native of [[Lucknow, India]]. She has a bachelor's degree from [[Loreto Convent Lucknow|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]].<ref name="CV">{{cite web|url=http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/departments/history/faculty/oldenburg.html |title=Baruch College bio |website=cuny.edu |accessdate=August 11, 2017}}</ref><br />
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Oldenburg has previously taught at [[Sarah Lawrence College]] and [[Columbia University]].<ref name="CV"/> She is a 2016 Fulbright Nehru Senior Scholar.{{citation needed|date=August 2017}}<br />
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==Works==<br />
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She has authored a number of books on Indian history:<br />
* ''The Making of Colonial Lucknow, 1856-1877'' Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1984.<br />
* ''Dowry murder : the imperial origins of a cultural crime'' : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.<br />
** Review, The American historical review. 112, no. 2, (2007): 484<br />
** Review, ''[[International Journal of Hindu Studies]]'', 10, no. 1 (2006): 117-118<br />
** Review, Estudios de Asia y Africa. 40, no. 3, (2005): 709<br />
** Review, The Indian economic and social history review. 41, no. 4, (2004): 516<br />
* Lifestyle as resistance: the case of the courtesans of Lucknow. \<br />
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