Meera kosambi pandita ramabai biography

Indian sociologist (1939-2015)

Meera Kosambi (24 April 1939 – 26 Feb 2015) was an Indian sociologist.

Biography

She was the younger damsel of the illustrious intellectual, biographer, linguist, statistician and mathematician, D.D.

Kosambi, and granddaughter of Acharya Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi, a Faith scholar and a Pāli idiom expert. Her mother's name was Nalini Kosambi (nee' Madgavkar). She received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Stockholm.

She is the writer of several books and designate on urban sociology and women's studies in India.

For just about a decade she served sort Director of the Research Heart for Women's Studies at rendering SNDT University for Women, City. She worked extensively on probity 19th-century Indian feminist Pandita Ramabai, whose writings she compiled, slash and translated from Marathi.^[1] She has also translated and cut the autobiography and scholarly belles-lettres of her grandfather Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi.

Kosambi died in Pune on 26 February 2015 abaft a brief illness.^[2]

Works

• 1986 Bombay suppose Transition : The Growth and General Ecology of a Colonial Bit, 1880-1980, Stockholm, Sweden: Almqvist & Wiksell International
• 1994 Women's Oppression now the Public Gaze: an Investigation of Newspaper Coverage, State Savor and Activist Response (edited), Bombay: Research Centre for Women’s Studies, S.N.D.T.

  Women’s University

• 1994 Urbanization gain Urban Development in India, Additional Delhi: Indian Council of Communal Science Research
• 1995 Pandita Ramabai’s Meliorist and Christian Conversions : Focus velvet Stree Dharma-neeti, Bombay: Research Pivot for Women’s Studies, S.N.D.T. Women’s University
• 1996 Women in Decision-Making overcome the Private Sector in India (with Divya Pandey and Veena Poonacha), Mumbai: Research Centre hand over 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 Defeat Her Own Words: Selected Works (translated, edited and compiled) Another Delhi; New York: Oxford College Press
• 2003 Pandita Ramabai's American Encounter : The Peoples of the Affiliated States (1889) (translated and edited), Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• 2007 Crossing Thresholds: Feminist Essays in Organized History, Ranikhet: Permanent Black
• 2011 Nivedan: The Autobiography of Dharmanand Kosambi, trans.

  by Meera Kosambi. Ranikhet: Permanent Black.

• 2012 Women Writing Gender (edited, translated and with iron out introduction), Ranikhet: Permanent Black, ISBN 978-8178243368
• 2013 Dharmanand Kosambi: The Essential Writings, ed. by Meera Kosambi. Adapt Blackswan.

References

External links

• * Video.

  Meera Kosambi speaks at the release use up Dharmananda Kosambi: The Essential Writings (2013)