Meera Kosambi (24 April 1939 – 26 February 2015) was an Indian sociologist.
Meera Kosambi | |
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Born | 24 April 1939 |
Died | 26 February 2015 Pune, Maharashtra | (aged 75)
Occupation | Sociologist |
Spouse | blank |
Parent | Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi (father) |
Relatives | Dharmanand Kosambi (grandfather) |
She was the younger daughter of the illustrious intellectual, historian, linguist, statistician and mathematician, D.D. Kosambi, and granddaughter of Acharya Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi, a Buddhist scholar and a Pāli language 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 author of several books and articles on urban sociology and women's studies in India.
For nearly a decade she 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.[1] She has also translated and edited the autobiography and scholarly writings of her grandfather Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi.
Kosambi died in Pune on 26 February 2015 after a brief illness.[2]