Veena Talwar Oldenburg is Professor of History at
Baruch College and
The Graduate Center of the
City University of New York. She is best known for her widely reviewed book on
Dowry murder.
She has authored a number of books on Indian history:
- The Making of Colonial Lucknow, 1856-1877 Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1984.
- Dowry murder : the imperial origins of a cultural crime : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Review, The American historical review. 112, no. 2, (2007): 484
- Review, International Journal of Hindu Studies, 10, no. 1 (2006): 117-118
- Review, Estudios de Asia y Africa. 40, no. 3, (2005): 709
- Review, The Indian economic and social history review. 41, no. 4, (2004): 516
- Lifestyle as resistance: the case of the courtesans of Lucknow.