Meera Kosambi
Meera Kosambi | |
|---|---|
| Born | 24 April 1939 |
| Died | 26 February 2015 (aged 75) Pune, Maharashtra, India |
| Occupation | Sociologist |
| Parent | Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi (father) |
| Relatives | Dharmanand Kosambi (grandfather) |
Meera Kosambi (24 April 1939 – 26 February 2015) was an Indian sociologist.[1]
Biography
She was the younger daughter of the historian and mathematician, D.D. Kosambi, and granddaughter of Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi, a Buddhist scholar and a Pāli language expert;[2] her mother's name was Nalini Kosambi (née Madgavkar). She received a Ph.D. in sociology from the Stockholm University. She is the author of several books and articles on urban sociology and women's studies in India.[3]
For nearly a decade Kosambi served as Director of the Research Centre for Women's Studies at the SNDT University for Women, Mumbai. She worked extensively on the 19th-century Indian feminist Pandita Ramabai, whose writings she compiled, edited and translated from Marathi.[4] She has also translated and edited the autobiography and scholarly writings of her grandfather Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi.[5][6]
Kosambi died in Pune on 26 February 2015 after a brief illness.[7]
Works
- 1986 Bombay in Transition: The Growth and Social Ecology of a Colonial City, 1880-1980, Stockholm, Sweden: Almqvist & Wiksell International [8][9]
- 1994 Women's Oppression in the Public Gaze: an Analysis of Newspaper Coverage, State Action and Activist Response (edited), Bombay: Research Centre for Women's Studies, S.N.D.T. Women's University
- 1994 Urbanization and Urban Development in India, New Delhi: Indian Council of Social Science Research
- 1995 Pandita Ramabai’s Feminist and Christian Conversions: Focus on Stree Dharma-neeti, Bombay: Research Centre for Women's Studies, S.N.D.T. Women's University [8]
- 1996 Women in Decision-Making in the Private Sector in India (with Divya Pandey and Veena Poonacha), Mumbai: Research Centre for Women's Studies, S.N.D.T. Women's University
- 2000 Intersections: Socio-Cultural Trends in Maharashtra (edited), New Delhi: Orient Longman, New Delhi
- 2000 Pandita Ramabai Through Her Own Words: Selected Works (translated, edited and compiled) New Delhi; New York: Oxford University Press
- 2003 Pandita Ramabai's American Encounter: The Peoples of the United States (1889) (translated and edited), Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- 2007 Crossing Thresholds: Feminist Essays in Social History, Ranikhet: Permanent Black [9]
- 2011 Nivedan: The Autobiography of Dharmanand Kosambi, trans. by Meera Kosambi. Ranikhet: Permanent Black. [9]
- 2012 Women Writing Gender (edited, translated and with an introduction), Ranikhet: Permanent Black, ISBN 978-8178243368
- 2013 Dharmanand Kosambi: The Essential Writings, ed. by Meera Kosambi. Orient Blackswan. [9]
References
- ^ "Indian Response to Christianity, Church and Colonialism". Economic and Political Weekly. 14 March 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
- ^ "Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi'". University of St Andrews. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
- ^ "Meera Kosambi". Good Reads. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
- ^ "The Modernist's Gaze". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 2 May 2004. Archived from the original on 4 June 2004.
- ^ "Unsettling the Past". Amazon. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
- ^ "Unsettling the Past (online copy)" (PDF). Internet Archive. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
- ^ "Noted sociologist Meera Kosambi passes away". The Hindu. Pune, India. 27 February 2015.
- ^ a b "Meera Kosambi". ABE Books. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
- ^ a b c d "Meera Kosambi". Amazon. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
External links
- * Video. Meera Kosambi speaks at the release of Dharmananda Kosambi: The Essential Writings (2013)